Physical Education

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Media Center in September

During the month of September, students will be enjoying story time with the books A Bad Case of Tattle Tongue by Julia Cook and Don’t Squeal Unless it’s a Big Deal by Jeanie Ransom.  These stories help the kids to learn the difference between tattling and telling.

We have also enjoyed Wilma Jean the Worry Machine by Julia Cook where we have discussed anxiety, apprehension, and/or fear. This is considered the number one health problem in America today. This story offers creative strategies for parents and teachers to use that can lessen the severity of anxiety.

A few tips for dealing with an anxious child:

-Genuinely accept your child’s concerns.

- Listen to your child’s perceptions and gently correct misinformation.

- Patiently encourage  your child to approach a feared situation one step at a time until it becomes         familiar and manageable.

- Always try to get your child to events on time, or early – being late can elevate levels of anxiety.

- Continually set equal expectations for all kids anxious or not. Expecting a child to be anxious will        only encourage anxiety.

- Role-play strategies how to react in certain situations. –Explore both best case scenarios and worst     case scenarios using realistic evidence.

- Build your child’s personal strengths.

- Help your child organize their school materials for the next day the night before.

- Allow and encourage your child to do things on his own.

The season of Fall also begins this month. We will be reading the stories The Leaves on the Trees by Thom Wiley and The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams. These are great stories that the children can sing along with and act out as the stories are being read to them.  

Physical Education

Physical Education is starting the year off with building a foundation, which will help lead to a more successful school year. Students in grades K and 1st will be participating in activities

to learn about the following:

•        personal and general space;
•        locomotor and non-locomotor skills;
•        levels and directions;
•        pathways;
•        creative moves;
•        tempo;
•        body management and balance;
•       pairing and moving together; and
•        grouping.

Learning these basic fundamental skills will help with the more advanced activities that we will be covering throughout the year.  This unit should last for the first 6 or 7 weeks. 

With the older students at lower campus, we will be covering the following:

•        locomotor and non-locomotor skills;
•        spatial awareness;
•        sportsmanship;
•        self-management;
•        team building; and
•        cooperative games.

Our 2nd and 3rd graders will also participate in Fitnessgram testing. While at lower campus, fitness testing is just to get the students familiar with Fitnessgram and is only for practice. At upper campus, Fitnessgram testing will be recorded and submitted to the State.  This unit will also last 6 or 7 weeks and will help lead us into new and fun activities.  The students will be retested on the Fitnessgram in February to see how their fitness has improved over 15 weeks. Visit www.fitnessgram.net for more information.

I am very excited to start our year off with fun and exciting activities, and I look forward to another great year at Globe. Here is a poster of our physical education expectations!

GO GLOBE!

- Coach Corso

Media Center

During the month of August, Kindergarten and First Grade will be working on Library Policies and Procedures. The objective is to learn about library citizenship/rules - we will show respect for rules and procedures as responsible library users.

Bullet Points:
- entering the library quietly
- listening with respect during story time
- browsing for books quietly
- lining up and leaving quietly
- bringing our books to return each week

Important things to Remember:
Keep books in a safe place, away from younger children and pets. Keep books dry and away from food and drinks. Keep books in the same place when you are done reading them (I tell the students to keep them in their back packs). Return them on time so that others can read them.

We will be reading:
Mr. Wiggle's Book
Library Lion
Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse
Goldisocks and the 3 Librarians

We will read the books listed above and discuss why we need rules. We will review the rules and practice them each week until students get them down.

Vocabulary:
borrow, check-out, check-in, librarian, procedures, rules, respect, responsibility, shelf markers