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Physical Education

After our gymnastics unit, First graders focused on improving their agility, eye-hand and
general body coordination, utilizing floor hockey sticks and jump ropes of different
lengths.

Safety is always of great importance for us, so we started by practicing a proper grip and
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handling equipment carefully in a group setting.
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Some of our activities were done individually, such as ball control using floor hockey
sticks, skipping and jumping over the rope, while others were done in pairs and groups to
foster students’ cooperation and team work.

We became more successful in maintaining control when dribbling the ball, and more
precise in passing to a partner or shooting. In jump-rope activities we made great pro-
gress in anticipating the right time to jump and became much better at spinning the rope
for ourselves, as well as for our friends.

At the end of the unit we incorporated different props in various tasks
while participating in relay games, which all students liked a lot. They dis-
played great enthusiasm, along with developed skills and team spirit.

EAL

I hope you have had the chance to look through the recipe book that was sent home
recently. I have had one student already say that they made one of their friend’s recipes
at home! What a fun way to practice reading with your child! Over the past month we Kelly Campbell
have been focusing on past tense verbs. We have completed worksheets, written para- EAL Teacher
graphs and played games to practice. Now students are learning the elements of story
writing. Currently students are planning their stories by deciding ahead of time what will
be the problem, how it will get worse and what will be the solution. Afterwards they will
write the story in past tense and illustrate it as well.

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