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Net Wall Games

Over the past 3 weeks students have been learning the strategy and tactics of Net Wall Games. This includes placing an object in the opponents space away from them so it is difficult for them to return the object. Examples of Net Wall games are tennis, volleyball, badminton and four square. In class we played games such as spot ball, air hockey and the big hit was 9 square in the air! We also had discussions around specific tactics such has hand eye coordination and tracking the object with your eyes.

Target Games

Over the past two weeks we have been working on understanding Target games. Now the definition of a target game is a game where you score points by striking or throwing an object and landing it in or closer to a target.
Examples of these sports include:

• golf
• curling
• billards
• bocce
• bowling
• archery

In PE class we played Bowling Bocce and Gotta Catch'em all.

In Bowling Bocce students were in teams of two and slid their bean bag towards a bowling pin. The objective of the game was to get your teams bean bag as close as possible to bowling pin without knocking it over.

Gotta catch'em all is a Pokémon inspired game that Miss Nanavaty made up. In the volleyball court where several pokémon (polyspots) all laid out and the trainers (students) needed to throw the pokéballs (beanbags) and try to land them on the pokémon in order to catch them.

Nanatastics and Circus

From January 7-17 the students worked on their Nanatastics and Circus skills. These skills were to help them develop their hand eye coordination, challenge themselves and try something new! For the Nanatastics portion students were working on their forward rolls and cartwheels. Students had a great time on the mats practicing and their improvement was HUGE! For the circus station students tried a variety of activities that included, juggling a variety of implements, hula hooping, hacky sack, circus yo-yos, flower sticks, and plate balancing. Each station was equipped with an ipad where a playlist was showing different skills they could try out. Here is the link to the youtube playlist so you can get an idea of what the students were practicing!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLS4IV4SQFq2g0KO3WYp7QjZZQvqpQxalh

Happy Holidays

With the holiday season here it is easy to negate physical activity and cuddle up with a blanket on the couch with a cup of hot chocolate. Unfortunately, that is not the best thing for our bodies. So I have a couple of ideas for you and your family to stay active this holiday season.

Here is a link to Participaction website with some activities:

Participaction Winter Activity Ideas


Here are some suggestions to stay active outside this holiday season:

I hope you have an active break and I can't wait to hear all about the fun activities you did! 

Happy Holidays,

Miss Nanavaty

Overhand Throwing

This week in PE we focused on our overhand throw. We learned about 4 different cues in order to perfect our over hand throwing technique.

1. Starfish - ensuring that the ball is in our back hand and that our legs are spread out. We are also making sure that we are perpendicular to our target
   
2. Muscles- Bending our back arm to get ready to throw
   
3. Squish the bug- Rotating our body to face our target
   
4. Throw- moving our back hand forward to release the object
   

We practiced this skill through the following games:

• Fire and Ice
• Bring it back
• Book it Ball

Underhand Throwing

This week in PE we are working on our underhand throwing. When performing the underhand throw we want to make sure that the foot opposite of our throwing hand is forward and then we are swinging our throwing arm forward. We discussed what the perfect release time was depending on where we wanted the object to go. Meaning if we wanted to slide the object on the floor than we would release it early (like bowling). If we wanted to pass to our partner we would release it around the time it gets to front knee and if we wanted it to go high in an arc we would release it later. We tried these different trajectories through games like:

-Catch me if you can
-Watch your step
-Golf