November Excitement @ Baker P.E. Program!

What’s happening in Physical Education in November? This month is going by quickly and we are in our football unit and will be through the month of November. The children have been introduced to the skills of: football grip and throwing techniques along with accurately throwing to a receiver for a short distance; how to place kick with proper kicking approach and techniques to kick straight with some height; punting a ball demonstrating proper punting techniques; three point stance and how to hold a football while running and having some fun in simulating diving over a bar to for a goal line touchdown dive. The laughter and smiles and thrill of scoring a touchdown without fumbling is just very thrilling for the kids and the smiles say it all!!!!!! The tag games introduced are fun and have also been designed to incorporate some aspects of football skills to reinforce learning. Introducing the children to these skills is seen as a part of a learning curve with the understanding that we are setting a baseline of knowledge upon which children can grow and improve their skills so that by the time they enter 4th grade, that they will have a good foundation for these skills. Many of the skills in this unit are common to other sports as well and so there is a commonality of skill learning that will transfer to other sports.