Physical Education and Health began the year by working on various team building activities to help get to know and work together with our new classes. This is a way for students to become more familiar and comfortable working with one another.  We have also been working on fundamentals in the Physical Education classroom and soccer skills.  For health, we have introduced and reviewed all of our school safety procedures.  This allows students to not only know what to do in case of an emergency, but why these rules are in place, and what makes them important.

In Health class we are now learning about the environment.  We are talking about what we can do to help the world be a cleaner, healthier place.  This will include the 3 R's (Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle) and energy conservation (turning lights and electronics off while not in use).  This helps the environment by not burning as much fossil fuels that pollute the air, but also helps out with family spending on unused energy.  In the cafeteria we are working as a school to recycle more, and are collecting recyclables at lunch time that would have normally been thrown in the trash.  Overall, it is important that the students are aware and thinking about ways to improve environmental health.,

In Physical Education we are moving on from soccer and learning about football.  We will be practicing the skills of the sport with throwing, catching, and holding the football.  We will work on different routes that are common to the sport and fundamentals of football.  In older grades, we will play some small sided games as well as skills based games, that will allow students to practice what they have learned with some friendly competition. 

It has been a great couple of months, and I hope all of the students are as excited as I am about the rest of this school year!