Ms. V

Beautiful morning for a stair workout for our grade 5s and even Kindies! Ask your child how many sets they finished today😎

Back outside this week and looking at Jump Rope Skills! Ask me how Jump Rope is similar to the current learning we just completed in Dance.

As we have been finishing up presenting our Percussive Dances before Spring Break, we’ve thrown in a few fitness videos to get our hearts pumping. This was a favourite amongst our grade 1 and 2s today! m.youtube.com/watch?v=AL-7GG…

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Grade 1-3 students presented their percussive dances this week. They have the opportunity of a “re-do”. Practicing at home will be needed before they present on Thursday next week!

Grade 1-3s are hard at work practicing their Percussive Dances. They will be performing this week, so some home practice will be a good idea!

This week our grade 1-3s have been busy exploring and creating their own 4 and 8 beat percussive dance patterns. Ask them to share their favourite creation!

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Follow the Leader is a good way for us to merge our knowledge of dance steps to using the “square” as our dance floor.

We’ve been using Just Dance videos from YouTube as a warm up in our PE classes. It’s a great tool to use at home when you need a quick movement break; or even when your looking to be active for your recommended 30min daily exercise!

This week we started our learning of percussive dance. Ask me about the three variables that influence a dance step.

Exercising with a focus on strength, flexibility, balance, and endurance does not always require highly active/cardio activities; Pilates is one way to work on these fitness goals in a low impact yet high effort/exertion way.

We managed to get outside yesterday for our PE classes. Sometimes the best activity is simply playing in the snow...oh, what fun we had!

Our Hawks and Hunters game has been extremely popular last week and once again this week with our students. Communicating (verbal and non verbal), working on agility, space awareness, and safety are skills being used during this game.

The cold weather has forced us inside; so we are working on our cardio and endurance through a favourite activity, The Edgemont 500! Ask me how many laps I ran today.

This week our grade 1-3 students played a variety of games using hula hoops. Ask me which was my favourite!

Our grade 4, 5 and K students started building their football skills this week: running with ball tucked into body; hand off passes; long passes; and scooping up a fumbled ball while building endurance and agility.

Tomorrow from 10:30-11:30, there will be drop in PE for any grades. Join me for the first half hour for a chair workout (just need yourself and a chair); and the last 30min we'll play "Would You Rather" fitness game. Stay for both or come for just one. Hope to see you tomorrow!

We had a large group join us for our K/Gr.1 workout this morning! Thanks to all those students who helped make the slides for todays workout. Remember to check your google classroom for your PE schedule this week!

Have you made your online Terry Fox donation yet? Our school has raised $70 so far. I know we can raise much more than that! Just a reminder our school page is terryfox.ca/Edgemont