Chatsworth Elementary School
Physical Education
The Physical Education program at Chatsworth provides a diversified program, which reflects safety, progression, individualization, and success. Children are encouraged to leave Chatsworth ES knowing that a healthy and active lifestyle is important for life.
Themes:
- Body & Spatial Awareness: Children become aware of personal space and their global environment through tagging, fleeing, chasing and boundary games.
- Geodesic Ball: Involves catching, throwing, and basic strategies of offense and defense.
- Football: Students learn kicking, throwing, catching, hiking & running through games such as Penny Football, mini- touch football games, prison dodgeball, driveback & rapid football.
- Field Hockey: Students learn the basic skills of stick control, stopping the ball, dribbling, striking, & passing. We play games such as Zone Hockey, Baseball Field Hockey & Sideline Hockey.
- Halloween Activities: Students assemble a Pumpkin pie plate puzzle, participate in a bone hunt using orienteering skills & participate in a fitness activity called the “Rainbow Run”.
- Capture the Flag: Strategies learned are running, dodging, tagging, chasing & fleeing and cooperative play in order to acquire the opposing team’s flags.
- Manipulative Activities: Learning prepositions such as over, under, around, in , out , through, to, from, by using hula hoops, jump ropes and bean bags.
- Circus Arts: This is an individual unit in which students learn juggling, balance activities, spinning plates, devil sticks & Chinese diablos. They also participate in a project adventure activity such as wall climbing.
- Basketball: Students learn the basic skills of basketball such as dribbling, passing, shooting & movement through space. They also learn the simple team strategies such as “pass & go”.
- Volleyball: Student work on the basic skills of bumping, setting & serving. They also learn team strategies and how to “rotate”.
- Badminton: Student work on eye/hand coordination and striking skills with the use of lollipop paddle and Shuttlecocks. This is also a cooperative activity in which students try to volley together & work together for a high number of volleys.
- Healthy Heart: The gym is set up as the cardiovascular system and student are the “blood cells” moving through the system on scooters.
- Ice Skating: A two-week unit in which the students are involved in a “free skate” at the Hommocks ice rink. Older students participate in supervised broom hockey games.
- Dance & Rhythms: Students learn movement and rhythms through line dancing, square dancing and polka dancing. The culminating activities are the 5th grade square dance and a Western day in which parents are invited to watch and participate with their children.
- Gymnastics: Students participate in a variety of balance, climbing activities, upper and lower body strength activities such as the balance beam, climbing the cargo net and climbing ropes.
- Track & Field: Students participate in a variety of activities such as relay races, hurdles, long jump and broad jump, agility running, and high jumping.
- T – Ball: Children work on striking skills, throwing, and catching skills and basic baseball rules.
- Kickball: Students work on eye/foot coordination and cooperative team play.
- Family Fun Nights: We host a number of events such as circus arts night, badminton, jump rope for heart, hoops for heart, and square dancing.
- Personal Living Skills: Skills such as responsibility, respect, cooperation, honesty, fair play, trust and courtesy are taught throughout the year and are included in all of our units.
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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