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In Class Now: Basketball

 

EK-K Students have been working in a group on locomotor skills and with a partner using a basketball.  We are learning how to: control a ball with our bodies, use relationships (left, right, etc.), travel in a group, catch a ball before and after one bounce, hold balls on signal, work cooperatively with a partner, share equipment, communicate, and apply safety practices.

 

1-2         Students are practicing the basics of basketball.  We are learning how to: control a basketball with our bodies, work cooperatively with and encourage a partner, stay within boundaries, become spatially aware of self and others using a basketball, listen to and follow directions, hand dribble, chest pass, bounce pass, shoot one handed, and apply safety practices.

 

3       Students are participating in a basketball unit.  We are learning how to: work cooperatively with and encourage a partner, listen to and follow directions, become spatially aware of self and others using a basketball, hand dribble at different levels, chest pass, bounce pass, shoot one handed, work as a team to accomplish a goal, communicate as a team member, and apply safety practices.

 

4-5    Students are participating in a basketball unit.  We are learning how to: meet challenges, work cooperatively with and encourage a partner, basic defense and offense strategies, hand dribble while traveling, chest pass, one hand pass, bounce pass, lay-ups, free throws, attempt 3 point shots, screen, rely on and communicate with teammates, mirror and contrast a partner, follow basketball rules and procedures, and apply safety practices and self control.

 

MS    Students are beginning a basketball unit.

 

President's Challenge

 

          Lower School President's Challenge Award Winners for August 

 

 

       Middle School President's Challenge Award Winners for August

 

Click on the links below to view the President's Challenge Percentiles by gender and fitness area.

 

Boys:     Mile     Sprint     Sit-Ups     Sit & Reach     Push-Ups     or     Pull-Ups

Girls:     Mile     Sprint     Sit-Ups     Sit & Reach     Push-Ups     or     Pull-Ups

 

Students that reach or exceed the 50th percentile for their age and gender in all five areas recieve the National Physical Fitness Award for the President's Challenge.

 

Students that reach or exceed the 85th percentile for their age and gender in all five areas recieve the Presidential Physical Fitness Award for the President's Challenge.

 

For more information about the President's Challenge visit http://www.presidentschallenge.org/

 

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