Sweat Gazette

Writer:  Mrs. Leber P.E. teacher

 

 

Hi, I am Mrs. Leber

    Hi, I am Mrs. Leber, your child’s Physical Education Teacher.  I have been teaching at Cashell for 8 years and I absolutely love it here.  Since Cashell is such a small school, I only teach here Wednesday through Friday.  On Mondays and Tuesdays I teach at Little Bennett E.S. and Lucy Barnsley E.S.  I look forward to another wonderfully active year with your children.  Please feel free to come in and join your child during his or her P.E. class!

 

Please Wear your sneakers!

To be safe in P.E. all children must wear their sneakers to P.E.  Due to safety concerns, a student will be asked to sit out of P.E. if he/she does not have on sneakers.  Look and see what day you need to wear your sneakers;

Wednesday: Durham, Duarte, Siska, Gannon

Thursday; Gurton, Ng, Frace/McLean, Letina, Homon

Friday; Conte, Rosendorf, Homon or Siska, Baker, Golding and Ingham

 

Special Events

9/27; 4^th and 5^th grade Hoedown

9/28; 5^th grade Sugarloaf Mountain Hike

10/22-10/26; 4^th and 5^th grade bike safety week

10/? Darcars Young Run

10/3; Walk to School Day

 

Let’s Move

          Pre-K-2^nd graders work on movement skills for the first month or more of school.  During movement exploration students develop an understanding of space:  how to find their own movement space, and how to keep their own space while they move.  We learn about dodging and looking for an open space to move into.  We also work on locomotor movements such as jump, hop, gallop, slide, and skip.  We use these new movements while traveling in different directions (left, right, clockwise, and counter-clockwise), and different pathways (straight, curved and zigzag).

 

When I exercise my body…

  Pre-K-2^nd graders will be learning what happens to their body when they exercise.  We will discover that our heart beats faster, we breath harder and our skin sweats.

 

 

Team

 Third graders will start the year working on cooperation.  We will focus on working together to complete a task.  We will learn how to support each other and accept our differences.

 

Let’s Dance!

Students in 4^th and 5^th grade will be working on their dance skills to get ready to perform for the 7^th annual Hoedown.  Fourth graders will be working on line dancing and fifth graders will be working on square dancing. 

 

Fitness Components

3^rd through 5^th graders will discover the 5 components of fitness this semester.  We will learn how to take our heart rate and discover what activities make our heart rate fall into our target zone.

 

Our minds on safety

  For the 4^th year WABA (Washington Area Bicycle Association) will be donating a trailer of bikes and helmets to our school for one week.  During P.E. class 4^th and 5^th graders will learn about the importance of wearing a helmet and performing an “ABC Quick Check” on their bikes before they ride.  I do not require students to ride a bike, but they will put on a helmet!  

 

Attention marathon runners!

  This summer all students had the opportunity to participate in a kid’s marathon.  Students were told to track their walking and/or running one mile at a time until they reached 25 miles.  All students have until the end of September to finish their 25 miles.  The first week in October we will complete our 26.2 mile marathon with a 1.2 mile walk/run during recess.  I hope this encouraged all of you to keep moving over the summerJ