Our physical education program is designed to promote individuals' movement potential. Selective activities promote physical fitness, fine and gross motor coordination, timing and cardiovascular endurance. The program seeks to develop skillful movement, physical fitness and recreational competency in every child.
Emphasis in the early grades is given to kinesthetic awareness and the acquisition of the basic locomotor skills of walking, running, sliding, jumping, hopping, skipping, galloping and leaping. Also, activities that develop eye-hand and eye-foot coordination, balance, and timing are practiced.
Encouragement of the social skills of sharing, group play, belonging, sensitivity to playmates and cooperation are intertwined into these activities. The child begins to learn the rules of basic games.
Emphasis in the third, fourth and fifth grades advances to include the refinement of body management skills: (1) The skills of dodging and guarding stationary and moving objects; (2) The skills of object manipulation and throwing, catching, kicking, and striking; (3) The skills of chasing, tagging, running, obstacle courses, tumbling, doing rhythmic activities; and (4) The skills needed for individual and team sports. Social skills that are encouraged include decision-making, self-confidence, leadership, sensitivity, accepting one's limitations, group interaction, sharing responsibility, competition and fair play.
Each class has physical education two times each week.