Parachute Fun!

Parachute activities provide a vigorous and fun way for any child to be part of the action and fun! At Baker school having FUN is ESSENTIAL!!!

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Jump Rope For Heart 2013

Dear Parents, Within the next few days your child will be bringing home a collection envelope for this year’s Jump Rope For Heart. Some children may have already brought the envelope home. Please place the envelope in a safe place, perhaps on the refrigerator, or in some other place in your house. This will be our 10th annual fundraiser to help the American Heart Association. This event provides our students with a wonderful lesson in charity. We hope that all children will try to raise money this year. We do not want any children going door to door! We suggest that children ask their family members, relatives, and good friends for donations. Some children have had great success asking mom or dad or a friend to take the collection envelope to work and circulating it there. The Heart Association provides the children with prizes they can win based on the donations they receive. The prizes are listed on the back of the collection envelope. Collection envelopes must be returned by March 27th. Feel free to return them earlier if you like. Students should return the envelopes to their gym teacher. The event will be held over the course of 5 days, March 18 to March 22. All children will participate during their regularly scheduled gym periods. Their will be 12 stations of varying challenges of jumping activities for fun for the children to participate in during their class. Having the event during school time allows every student in the school the opportunity to participate in the jump. We hope your family can celebrate that no one has been touched by heart disease or stroke. Those families that have lost a loved one to heart disease or stroke might choose to make a donation in their honor. This “honor” donation will then be posted on our Honors poster and placed in the gym as a reminder throughout the year. We have talked with all children about the various circumstances that family’s today face. Not all families are in a position to give but the children will be eager to ask for donations. At the same time, we hope they have understood that people can only give what their present circumstances allow. Please do what is comfortable for you and your family. Thank you in advance for your help and support. You may follow us along with the posting of children in action on our P.E. blog site: http://baker08.blogspot.com/ Mr. Fantaroni & Mr. Raudonaitis Physical Education Dept.@ Ezra Baker School

Climbing Wall and Cargo Net

The children are learning to gain confidence in climbing, developing upper body strength and having soOOO much fun!

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February Fun and Fitness

This month we focused on our Floor Hockey, Pillo Polo and scooter hockey units, all having similar skill sets to teach on how to control a puck or ball. The children enjoyed playing all versions of the varying games. Safety was a consistent factor in keeping Pillo Polos' and floor hockey sticks on the floor and only using half swings to make contact. Needless to say that there were many penalties for high sticking but the learning curve improved and the children played many of the activities without injuries. Mixed in with these skills were tag games, again focused on cardio vascular endurance and learning game strategies. The two videos captured a moment in our time for floor hockey and a Valentine's game. A fun month as we conclude this unit and look forward to our climbing units.

Valentine Tag game-grade 3

The children enjoyed being a cavity tagger and sending tagged kids to the dentist, and being saved by Cupid!

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February Fun @ Baker

Scooter hockey is part of our floor hcokey and pillo polo unit. Children learn to pass and control the ball and play positions.

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January Physical Education activities

This month we covered Basketball skills and fun games. The Basketball skills taught were: dribbling using the finger pads of the hand, double and single hand dribbling depending upon age and skill level, bounce and chest pass practice, shooting styles, and dribbling practice for short periods of time. Backyard game instruction in which the children can play at home with family and friends are: Around The World, 21, and Horse. We also played tag games in which children had to shoot a basket if tagged and they got the ball in the basket they got free as did everyone else in line and they got back into the game. The Pacer test for cardiovascular fitness was again administered. We administered this test in the Fall to get a baseline of performance for each child and determine class averages.. We then set a goal based upon a 12 % gain for this winter performance for all children. In the winter test we will again set a goal for a 13% goal and thus a 25% overall gain for the year ending in June. So far, all grades improved their overall class performance. Although not all children made a personal gain, it gives us something to work on for the final Spring score. Some children had a hard time understanding the concept of a goal and how to achieve a goal which is an important concept for us to work on for this last quarter, along with improved fitness. In the Kindergarten class we worked again on locomotor developmental skills and with these skills we have seen huge grade level improvements. Towards the end of this month we introduced pillo polo as a lead up skill to our floor hockey unit. We introduced the various ways in which to control a puck/ball, such as: carrying the puck, dribbling and stick handling. All three techniques will be carried on as we move to floor hockey skills. Overall, a terrific month in which children demonstrated improvements in their personal efforts to improve their own skill level.