Central Elementary School
Physical Education
The ultimate goal of physical education at Central School is for students to develop a love for movement and to maintain a physically active lifestyle. The physical education program provides students with the opportunity to develop motor skills through activities that focus upon specific themes. Incorporated into every lesson is an appreciation of wellness and safety.
Themes:
- Body awareness: Students learn to move their bodies through space in a controlled and balanced manner. Early on they recognize body parts and how to coordinate those parts in creating fluid motion. This theme is best accomplished through guided discovery using beanbags, hoops, ropes, lines and other selected objects. Additionally, students learn about the skeletal, muscular, nervous and circulatory systems. Visit our gym in October and you will learn about bones and muscles or in February to take a scooter trip through the circulatory system to learn about how blood travels and how to maintain heart health. (At this time we are engaged with Hoops for Heart.)
- Locomotor Skills: Students learn and develop skill in running, skipping, galloping, hopping, jumping, sidestepping and leaping. They experience these movements within many chasing and fleeing games, folk and square dance and hip hop dancing, rope jumping skills, street games and track and field activities. Students then use these movements to learn basic sport skills, an example of which is basketball dribbling.
- Laterality and Directionality: Students learn to move forward, backward, sideways, right, left, under, over, through, around, up, down, etc. Dance, obstacle course activities, mapping adventures and tumbling are just a few of the activities that develop this theme.
- Eye hand and eye foot coordination: Students learn many sport related skills to accomplish this theme. Ball handling skills including rolling, throwing and catching and bouncing and provide a foundation for students to achieve basic skills necessary to play basketball, baseball/softball or bowling. Kicking skills provide students the basis for playing soccer and speedball . Circus arts skills focus upon more fine motor eye hand coordination development. Juggling, spinning plates, diabolo spinning and devil sticking require relaxed and very specific movements.
- Striking skills: Students learn to contact objects using their hands, feet or other implements such as a paddle or bat. Students have the opportunity to develop basic striking skills used in volleyball, baseball/softball, badminton, field hockey and floor hockey through simple sport related games.
- Balance: Students develop and practice balance through all activities. Circus arts skills, especially cable spool & tight rope walking, unicycle & pedal riding, as well as gymnastics and ice skating, provide students with the greatest opportunity to develop their personal balance.
- Strength and endurance: Students develop these important components of fitness, especially through gymnastics and track and field activities. Throughout the year fitness is developed through games such as Fitness Monopoly.
- Social skills: Throughout all activities in the program, students are continually developing and practicing cooperation, self-control, self-direction, problem solving, conflict resolution, communication, respect of self and others, respect for the environment, trust, teamwork, risk taking, fairness and the ability to compete appropriately.
Highlights of Central Physical Education:
- Ultimate Geodesic Ball
- Addams Family Game
- Bone Hunt
- Nutrition: Food Pyramid Game
- Thanksgiving Table Game
- Circus Arts Performance
- Ice Skating
- Family Fun Nights: Circus Arts, Healthy Heart, Street Games, Bicycle Safety, Mapping and Orienteering
- Hoops for Heart/Jump Rope for Heart
- ACES: All Children Exercising Simultaneously
- Fun in the Sun Olympics
- 5th Grade Field Day
- 5th Grade Parent/Student Square Dance
- Artist in Residence Programs: Circus Arts and Hip Hop
Health
The ultimate goal of the elementary Health program is for students to begin developing basic attitudes, knowledge and behaviors that contribute to their own self-worth, respect for their bodies and the ability to make constructive decisions regarding their social and emotional, as well as physical, health.
Grades K-2:
There is no formal health class in Kindergarten through 2nd grade. However, classroom teachers, in conjunction with the school psychologist and health teacher, introduce students to the concepts of safe & healthy living by exploring the concepts of "Good Touches, Bad Touches" as a precursor to our sexual abuse curriculum that begins in the 3rd grade.
Grades 3 & 4
Sexual Abuse Prevention:
- Identify appropriate and inappropriate touches.
- Give resources to children on how to handle unwanted touches.
- Discuss Feeling of children who are touched inappropriately.
Grade 5
Family Life/Human Sexuality:
- Understanding Self
- Body image
- Stereotyping
- Nature versus nurture
Two classes are devoted to discussing feeling about self and their attitudes about being a boy or a girl. Children will have the opportunity to explore their feelings about gender stereotyping.
Human Growth and Development:
- Puberty
- Reproductive system
- Pregnancy
During these four classes boys and girls will be separated. At this time we will discuss all the physical and emotional changes that happen during puberty. We cover both the male and female reproductive system so that they have a greater understanding of conception and pregnancy. Boys and girls will have the opportunity to learn about both sexes.
Diseases
- Communicable and non-communicable diseases
- How do people get communicable and non-communicable diseases?
- Immune system
This unit is designed to introduce the concepts of disease to prepare students for future HIV/AIDS discussion.
Sexual Abuse Prevention
- What is sexual abuse?
- Appropriate and inappropriate touching
- What can a child do if they feel they have been abused?
- Internet safety
Children will be able to identify all the different types of sexual abuse. They will learn about resources available if they are ever in an undesired situation.
Drug Awareness
- Legal and illegal drugs
- Use, misuse and abuse
- Alcohol use and abuse
- Cigarettes
- Why people abuse drugs?
- Strategies to strengthen children’s ability to say “no” to drugs
- D.A.R.E. - Drug Awareness and Resistance Education
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