March Madness !

Well, as March roars in with a winter storm, we look back over what the kids did in the month of Feb. Our big unit on bowling was allot of fun, make sure to ask you child how they did in the competition among their grades. Unfortunately, there can only be one winner per grade but it sure generated allot of excitement and team work in the class effort to knock down as many total pins as possible. We also had a unit on 12 circuit training stations, each different and hopefully fun and challenging for the children.

March madness time is a fun time to pick our favorite college basketball teams (Go B.C.), which hopefully the children will learn to appreciate. They can learn geography as they learn about where the college teams are located and can perform math computations in looking at scores and points won and lost by, along with learning about how brackets work!

During our physical education time this month we are planning to set up a "Mission Impossible" circuit, with each station presenting varying sets of challenges! We also will begin our annual fundraiser with Jump Rope For Heart, which the children learn about the spirit of fundraising and illness in peoples life. Given the state of the economy, we are very conscious of the hardships that exist locally in our school but we feel going through the fundraising process to heighten awareness is an important learning tool for our children. Over the years, many of the children have felt comfortable and shared their own families personal medical stories and we, as staff, feel good about the fact that the children feel comfortable with us to talk about their families situations. Our message to the children is that not all families can give and whatever they can do to ask for donations is an important lesson for them to learn. We always have fun and the children look forward to the activity stations and the potential to earn prizes for raising money.

Again, we hope that you will talk with your child about their days activity in physical education, what they learned and had fun doing and we hope that their time with us will serve as a source of motivation to develop an active and healthy life style!