Mr. Lynch’s Physical Education Class

Kindergarten – 8th Grade

Michael Lynch

[email protected]

Physical Education is vital to a child’s overall health and is essential to a school’s curriculum. Even though COVID-19 has significantly impacted all of us in some way, this pandemic does not change the goal of physical education: participate in engaging activities that will develop motor skills, improve academic performance, teamwork skills, health, etc. Also, physical education plays a critical role in helping students develop and maintain active lifestyles.

Kindergarten

• Loco-motor skills (running, jumping, hopping, galloping, skipping)
• Body and Spatial awareness (e.g. “Running through the Jungle”)
• Balancing activities/exercises (e.g. 1 legged balance, push-up hold, animal movements: bear walk, crab walk, elephant, giraffe, snake)
• Reaction Type game (e.g. Red Light, Green Light, Freeze Dance, Simon Says)
• Memory games (e.g. Copy Cat)
• Music and Movement Activities (e.g. Hokey Pokey, Freeze Dance, Shake Your Sillies Out)
• Ball activities (tossing and catching)
• Integration (e.g. Hula Hoop Colors, Treasure Chest Match It!, Math Challenges)
• Rolling/Bowling activities
• Balloon activities (e.g. striking with hand, parts of the hand, other body parts (e.g. knee, foot, elbow)
• Pathways and Directions (e.g. circular, straight, curved, zigzag, forwards, backwards/reverse, “driving”)
• Obstacle Course activities

1ST – 4th

• Loco-motor skills integrated with games to reinforce the movements they learned
• Throwing and Catching games
• Balancing activities
• Music and Movement Activities
• Reaction games (e.g. Army and Navy, Captain’s Orders, Running activities, Mystery Hoop)
• Memory games (e.g. Copy Cat, Uno Card Hunt, Find the Treasure)
• Rolling/Bowling activities (improve accuracy, distance, object manipulation)
• Dribbling (e.g. variety of skill-based basketball activities)
• Stations (e.g Holiday themed activities)

5th – 8th

• Reaction games (e.g. Rock, Paper, Scissors, Show!, Granny’s footsteps)
• Racing games
• Steal the Bacon games (e.g. 2 basketballs/soccer balls)
• Sport Skills (e.g. passing, catching, shooting, throwing, etc.)
• Stations (e.g. students choose a sport/activity to participate in and rotate when necessary)