Attention fellow P.E. teachers-----Do your students participate in fitness testing? If so, I have many printable mini-certificates (prints 4 per page) for you to use! The kids LOVE these certificates and are really motivated to earn them. Print them on bright colored paper and they look awesome!
The mile run certificate is a FREE download. My other certificates are priced at $1.00. Please visit this webpage to download my certificates.
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Carly3
Here is a list of certificates that are available:
Mile Run Mini-Certificate - FREE
1/2 Mile Mini-Certificate - $1.00
1/4 Mile Mini- Certificate - $1.00
Sit-Up King/Queen Mini-Certificate - $1.00
Push-Up King/Queen Mini-Certificate - $1.00
Sit and Reach King/Queen Mini-Certificate - $1.00
Shuttle Run King/Queen Mini-Certificate - $1.00
Flex Arm Hang Healthy Mini-Certificate (boys and girls) - $1.00 each
Improvement Award Mini-Certificate (purchase scratch and sniff stickers to go with this one) - $1.00
Sparkle Note (4 per page) - $2.00 - This is my favorite and most used certificate! It has lines for you to write in whatever you want to say for your student. It's a generic "your child is doing great in PE class....I'm especially impressed with _______". (ex. "Timmy is doing great with our basketball unit - his shooting form is superb!"
Thanks everyone, and happy fitness testing!
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Monday, May 20, 2013
P.E. Relay Races to learn colors - Rainbow Relay
Today I was thinking about doing the "Color Sorting Relay" with my lower elementary special education students, but then I came up with a fun new game called the "Rainbow Relay"!
See videos below. Mr. Gietzen, our awesome student teacher, is leading these activities.
Rainbow Relay - Students run to endline and choose a color card out of a bucket. They run back and place their card on the rainbow.
Color Sorting Relay - Students run to endline and choose a color card out of a bucket. They run back and sort the card into the correct bucket.
Video of my 3 year old class doing the "Color Sorting Relay".
See videos below. Mr. Gietzen, our awesome student teacher, is leading these activities.
Rainbow Relay - Students run to endline and choose a color card out of a bucket. They run back and place their card on the rainbow.
Color Sorting Relay - Students run to endline and choose a color card out of a bucket. They run back and sort the card into the correct bucket.
Video of my 3 year old class doing the "Color Sorting Relay".
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
P.E. Games - Healthy Eating / Fruit and Vegetable Tag
This past month has flown by! Here is what the students have been working on:
Early Childhood Center:
Basketball Skills - dribbling
Soccer Skills - dribbling/trapping/kicking
Nutrition - Fruits and Vegetables
Review of Throwing Skills - "Star Wars" game
Zinser - 2nd Grade:
Basketball Skills - dribbling
Soccer Skills - dribbling/trapping/kicking
Spring Fitness Testing
Review of Throwing skills - "Battleship" game
Check out a few videos below: (Sorry Zinser folks.....I'll try to get some videos of 2nd grade next week!)
Mr. Gietzen's DRIBBLING FRENZY game - practicing dribbling soccer balls and basketballs. Students have a partner to switch balls with occasionally.
Fruit and Veggie Tag - Students who were tagged had to sit down and wait for someone to bring them a fruit or vegetable. Then they had to CLASSIFY and SORT their food into the bucket labeled "FRUIT" OR "VEGGIE"
Video of FRUIT AND VEGGIE WARM-UP
FRUIT AND VEGGIE TAG - TK CLASS
FOR TEACHERS - Here is a video explanation of my "Mini-Obstacle Course Warm-Up".
Early Childhood Center:
Basketball Skills - dribbling
Soccer Skills - dribbling/trapping/kicking
Nutrition - Fruits and Vegetables
Review of Throwing Skills - "Star Wars" game
Zinser - 2nd Grade:
Basketball Skills - dribbling
Soccer Skills - dribbling/trapping/kicking
Spring Fitness Testing
Review of Throwing skills - "Battleship" game
Check out a few videos below: (Sorry Zinser folks.....I'll try to get some videos of 2nd grade next week!)
Mr. Gietzen's DRIBBLING FRENZY game - practicing dribbling soccer balls and basketballs. Students have a partner to switch balls with occasionally.
Fruit and Veggie Tag - Students who were tagged had to sit down and wait for someone to bring them a fruit or vegetable. Then they had to CLASSIFY and SORT their food into the bucket labeled "FRUIT" OR "VEGGIE"
Video of FRUIT AND VEGGIE WARM-UP
FRUIT AND VEGGIE TAG - TK CLASS
FOR TEACHERS - Here is a video explanation of my "Mini-Obstacle Course Warm-Up".
Friday, April 26, 2013
P.E. Web page - Warm-Up Ideas for Elementary P.E.
For all my fellow P.E. teachers out there--------check out my P.E. web page - I have been uploading my activities into categories so it's easier to find things. Warm-Ups, Fitness Activities, Lesson Plans, Relays, Holiday Games, etc. Enjoy!
http://carlyspegames.weebly.com/index.html
http://carlyspegames.weebly.com/index.html
Monday, March 25, 2013
P.E. Easter Games - Easter Egg Hunts, Jellybean Tag, Easter Tag
This week my classes did an Easter Egg Hunt! The kids had SO much fun and got a lot of exercise! 2nd grade students also had time for some dribbling practice with Mr. Gietzen, and also did a "dribbling maze". Pictures and videos below.....
Kindergarten Easter Egg Hunt
2nd Grade Hunt
Early Childhood Special Education Class - They hunted and then sorted eggs by color.
For more Easter Games please click here! This includes Easter Egg Hunts, Easter Tag, Jellybean Tag, and "Jellybean Wars" throwing game. Enjoy!
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| Kindergarten doing some warm-up exercises before the Easter Egg Hunt. |
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| Kindergarteners taking turns to find Easter eggs. |
Kindergarten Easter Egg Hunt
2nd Grade Hunt
Early Childhood Special Education Class - They hunted and then sorted eggs by color.
For more Easter Games please click here! This includes Easter Egg Hunts, Easter Tag, Jellybean Tag, and "Jellybean Wars" throwing game. Enjoy!
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Elementary P.E.- Tripods and Headstands
Activities the students have been working on since our last update:
1) Leaping Leprechauns Warm-Up Game
2) Tumbling (Somersaults, Log and Pencil Rolls, and tripods, headstands and cartwheels for 2nd grade)
3) All students are participating in basketball activities for the month of March.
See pictures and videos below!
Second grade students finished up their tumbling unit with tripods and headstands. We taught the tripod first and required students to balance for 10 seconds before trying to lift their legs up for a headstand. Key points to remember when practicing a tripod - 1) make a triangle with your head and hands, 2) Spread your feet apart on the mat (to line up your knees with your elbows), 3) Slowly walk your feet in towards your elbows and lift knees up to balance on elbows.
Video of our student teacher, Mr. Gietzen, teaching a round-off. We typically do not teach this skill, but decided to this year because of student interest. Students had the option to try this, or participate in other tumbling activities.
Video of Kindergarten doing the "Leaping Leprechaun" Warm-Up:
Video of 2nd grade doing "Leaping Leprechauns"
1) Leaping Leprechauns Warm-Up Game
2) Tumbling (Somersaults, Log and Pencil Rolls, and tripods, headstands and cartwheels for 2nd grade)
3) All students are participating in basketball activities for the month of March.
See pictures and videos below!
Second grade students finished up their tumbling unit with tripods and headstands. We taught the tripod first and required students to balance for 10 seconds before trying to lift their legs up for a headstand. Key points to remember when practicing a tripod - 1) make a triangle with your head and hands, 2) Spread your feet apart on the mat (to line up your knees with your elbows), 3) Slowly walk your feet in towards your elbows and lift knees up to balance on elbows.
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| 2nd grade student doing a tripod. |
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| Student balancing in a tripod position before raising legs up for a headstand. |
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| Headstand! |
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| Headstand |
Video of our student teacher, Mr. Gietzen, teaching a round-off. We typically do not teach this skill, but decided to this year because of student interest. Students had the option to try this, or participate in other tumbling activities.
Video of Kindergarten doing the "Leaping Leprechaun" Warm-Up:
Video of 2nd grade doing "Leaping Leprechauns"
Monday, March 11, 2013
PE Game - Hide and Seek Valentine Hearts
Here is a fun, easy Valentine game I created to play with my elementary classes. This is a great game for special education students as well. For a printable of this game, please click "Hide and Seek Valentine Hearts".
A St. Patrick's Day version of this game is called "Hide and Seek Shamrocks". This game is also found on my blog here. You may also visit my web page for many more games!
Video of this game:
Hide
and Seek Valentine Heart Relay
Equipment Needed:
5 buckets or boxes (one for each team)
75 + Valentine Hearts (I use plastic hearts from the dollar store, but you could use paper hearts that are laminated)
20 + cones or domes (I like these domes the best)
Intro:
Take 30 seconds to talk about Valentine’s Day.....why we celebrate, what we do on Valentine’s Day, etc. Then tell the students they are going to pretend to be CUPID, and they have to FIND the Valentines Hearts that are hiding in the gym!
Description of Activity:
This is a continuous relay race that keeps going until all of the hearts have been collected. I use the width of the gym and make groups of 3-4 students. Give each group a bucket to leave by the side wall to collect their hearts. Students take turns running to find a heart. When they lift up a dome to peek, they should put it back down to hide any remaining hearts.
Set-Up:
Using the width of the gym, set a bucket near the wall for each group. On the other side wall, scatter the cones/domes and hide hearts under them. Hide about 5 under each dome.
Rules:
Students must wait their turn to run (groups of 3 are best so kids are not standing in line too long). When it’s their turn, the student runs to the other side of the gym, peeks under a dome and takes ONE heart, then run back to their team’s bucket to drop it in. Then the student gets back in line for another turn to run. If a dome is EMPTY, the student may flip it over so other students don’t continue to look under that dome.
Notes:
When all of the hearts are collected, groups may count their hearts, or sort them by color, size, etc if you are using a variety of different hearts. (see my pictures on my blog). They may also count how many total hearts their team collected. Have students hide hearts for the next class (tell them how many to put under each dome so you don’t have many empty and others with too many).
You could also substitute skipping, galloping, crab walk, riding scooters, etc. instead of running.
A St. Patrick's Day version of this game is called "Hide and Seek Shamrocks". This game is also found on my blog here. You may also visit my web page for many more games!
Video of this game:
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| Another dollar store purchase! |
Equipment Needed:
5 buckets or boxes (one for each team)
75 + Valentine Hearts (I use plastic hearts from the dollar store, but you could use paper hearts that are laminated)
20 + cones or domes (I like these domes the best)
Intro:
Take 30 seconds to talk about Valentine’s Day.....why we celebrate, what we do on Valentine’s Day, etc. Then tell the students they are going to pretend to be CUPID, and they have to FIND the Valentines Hearts that are hiding in the gym!
Description of Activity:
This is a continuous relay race that keeps going until all of the hearts have been collected. I use the width of the gym and make groups of 3-4 students. Give each group a bucket to leave by the side wall to collect their hearts. Students take turns running to find a heart. When they lift up a dome to peek, they should put it back down to hide any remaining hearts.
Set-Up:
Using the width of the gym, set a bucket near the wall for each group. On the other side wall, scatter the cones/domes and hide hearts under them. Hide about 5 under each dome.
Rules:
Students must wait their turn to run (groups of 3 are best so kids are not standing in line too long). When it’s their turn, the student runs to the other side of the gym, peeks under a dome and takes ONE heart, then run back to their team’s bucket to drop it in. Then the student gets back in line for another turn to run. If a dome is EMPTY, the student may flip it over so other students don’t continue to look under that dome.
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| Peek under a dome to find heart! |
Notes:
When all of the hearts are collected, groups may count their hearts, or sort them by color, size, etc if you are using a variety of different hearts. (see my pictures on my blog). They may also count how many total hearts their team collected. Have students hide hearts for the next class (tell them how many to put under each dome so you don’t have many empty and others with too many).
You could also substitute skipping, galloping, crab walk, riding scooters, etc. instead of running.
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| These are the domes with 4-5 hearts hidden under each one. |
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