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Welcome to Galesburg Augusta Health and Wellness Program! The program is geared towards fun, success and healthy living. I will provide a mixture of individual and team fundamental skills, cooperative learning, aerobic activity and health lessons. Please check out the News link above for program information and the latest news.
Program Highlights:
MEAP preparations
Jump Rope for Heart
Fitness Club
Physical Fitness testing
Field Day
HEALTHY LINKS
MISSION STATEMENT & PHILOSOPHY
Mission Statement:
The elementary physical education curriculum at the Primary and Intermediate schools will focus on the concept of unity of mind and body based upon developing a holistic person in grades K-5. The primary focus of the physical education program is to develop and maintain fundamental motor skills, physical fitness, sport skills, cognitive knowledge and personal and social skills.
Development and growth of each student will be facilitated by a comprehensive guided instruction and participation in motor appropriate activities, sport skills, leisure activities, individual activities and physical fitness opportunities. Through the physical education program students will be able to recognize personal capabilities and develop a positive, healthy and realistic self-image. Students will also be encouraged to learn social skills such as how to share, win or lose and act responsibly in-group situations.
Health & Wellness Philosophy:
Provide a safe and inviting environment for all children
Curriculum includes the physical, psychomotor, cognitive and health domains
Lessons are developmentally appropriate
WHAT IS HEALTH & WELLNESS? WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
What is Health & Wellness?
Health and Wellness is a program taught by a trained educator that provides students with opportunities to develop and maintain the skills necessary to live a healthy lifestyle.
A common misperception is that Health and Wellness (PE) and gym class are synonyms. Gym class entails no skill learning, little instruction, and a competitive atmosphere where only athletes succeed.
Why Health & Wellness?
Promotes changes in brain structure and function.
Reduces the risk of developing heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure
Promotes lifelong physical fitness
Helps maintain healthy bones, muscle, and joints
Helps maintain and/or improve health by increasing cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, endurance, flexibility, and body composition.
KIDS FEEL GREAT AND HAVE FUN!!!
KINDERGARTEN & 1ST GRADE PROGRAM ACTIVITES
Kindergarten and Grade One:
Locomotor skills: walk, skip, jump, run, slide, gallop, etc.
Non-locomotor skills: push-pull, over-under, twist-turn, overhand-underhand, etc.
Manipulative skills: catch, throw, toss, bounce, dribble, jump rope, kick, tumbling, balance, striking, hula hoops, parachute, cup stacking, wall climbing
Levels: low, medium, high
Pathways: straight, zig-zag, curved, diagonal,forward, backward
Physical fitness
Rhythmic Activities
Bicycle Safety
Healthy Eating
Tag Games
2ND - 4TH PROGRAM ACTIVITIES
Second and Third Grades:
Reinforcement of Basic Motor Skills
Locomotor activities
Non-Locomotor activities
Manipulative skills
Levels
Pathways
Increase Physical Fitness
Development of Rhythmic Activities
Introduction for Fundamental Motor Skills to be used across a lifetime
Football skills, basketball skills, volleyball skills, racquet skills, bowling, lacrosse, gymnastic skills.
Fourth and Fifth Grade:
Benefits of exercise across a lifetime
Weight Control
Aerobic and Anaerobic exercise
Self-esteem
Total Body Fitness (Presidential Physical Fitness Testing)
Introduction to Sport Skills
Football, basketball, floor hockey, soccer, volleyball, tennis, lacrosse, archery, badminton, softball-baseball, swimming, bowling, dance