I would like to welcome your child to our Panther Lake Health and Fitness program. I have high expectations for our students here at Panther Lake. I expect every child to participate in P.E. with their best attitude and effort. Your child will have P.E. twice a week with me with the exception of half-day kindergarten.

My primary focus of the Panther Lake Health and Fitness program is to meet the needs of your child. The main emphasis of the program consists of physical fitness and skill development to enhance the quality of health throughout your child's future years.

Your child will progress with the following Essential Academic Learning Requirements:

Essential Learning 1:

Active Lifestyle - The student acquires the knowledge and skills necessary to maintain an active life: movement, physical fitness, and nutrition.

Essential Learning 2:

Health Skills - The student acquires the knowledge and skills necessary to maintain a healthy life: recognizing patterns of growth and development, reducing health risks, and living safely.

Essential Learning 3:

Influencing Factors - The student analyzes and evaluates the impact of real-life influences on health.

Essential Learning 4:

Health and Fitness Planning - The student effectively analyzes health and safety information to develop health and fitness plans based on life goals.

Physical Fitness:

improve physical fitness in areas upper body strength, flexibility, cardiovascular endurance, agility, abdominal strength

Fundamental Movements:

fundamental movements in various traveling patterns, locomotor skills such as skipping, hopping, jumping, galloping, walking, and balancing

Rhythmic Movements:

develop coordinated patterns varying shape, size, direction, levels, and speed, while manipulating an object, creative dance, perform locomotor and non-locomotor movements in a pattern, participate in circle, line, and square dancing

Lead-up Skills and Games:

toss and catch a ball, kick a ball, bounce a ball, throw & catch an object, dribble, trap, pass, throw in modified games

Lifetime Sports and Activities:

participate in a variety of lifetime sports and activities

Alternative Activities:

jump ropes, Scooter Town, traverse wall

P.E. Class procedures are as follows:

 

1. Intro - Review class goals for the day.

2. Warm up

 

3. Activity

4. Cool Down

5. Closure - What did we learn?

 

Students will be assessed based on how they meet grade level expectations for each Health and Fitness Essential Learning Requirement. The following grading rubric will be used:

E Exceeding Standards

M Meeting Standards

A Approaching Standards

B Below Standards

The student will set personal goals on a variety of activities. When the student improves with each activity his/her P.E. grade will reflect improvement.

It is very important for your child to attend school. Attendance in P.E. is also important. Your child needs to be a participant in our Panther Lake Health and Fitness program. Attendance and participation will be graded. Absenteeism could lower your child's P. E. grade.

He/she needs to wear the proper clothing for P.E. on his/her day. The recommended clothing on P.E. days are:

1. tennis shoes, jogging shoes

2. gym shorts, sweats, or comfortable pants (not baggy or too tight).

IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO WEAR THE APPROPRIATE CLOTHING ON YOUR CHILD'S P.E. DAY.

It is very critical for the parent to be part of your child's Health and Fitness education. I highly recommend all parents exercise with their children. Some examples are:

1. Walk as a family twice a week for 20 minutes.

2. Ride bicycles together.

3. Jump rope as a family.

4. Jog a few minutes per day.

5. Eat a healthy breakfast always.

6. Any event that becomes a lifestyle-enhancing activity.

Parents are welcome to participate in their child's P.E. program.

I expect your child to follow these guidelines:

1. Follow directions

2. Demonstrate good sportsmanship

3. Always participate

4. Do your best

5. Be considerate of others

6. Wear the right P. E. clothing

I really expect your child to respect others and follow the P.E. guidelines. If your child cannot follow the guidelines, I will contact the parent.

I will be sending information home about various activities happening this year at Panther Lake. I will submit information in the Panther Lake "Tracks."