Parmenter Panda Physical Education and Health

This month, students in K-2 will be starting their soccer units!  Students will work on dribbling, passing, and shooting!  In health, kindergarten students will talk about oral hygiene and growing, 1st grade students will review oral hygiene and will also talk about the senses, and grade 2 students will focus on bones and muscles. Students in grades 3-5 will participate in our Spring Franklin Fitness Challenge to see how much they have improved from the Fall!  Students will participate in the mile, curl-ups, pull-ups/flexed arm hang, and sit and reach!  Students can use the video below to practice their curl-ups (sit-ups) to the specific cadence! In health, grade 3 students will learn about digestion and body organs and grades 4 and 5 will participate in puberty lessons.   (A note went home explaining these lessons and as a reminder,  this note is NOT a permission slip .  I only need it back if you do not want your child to participate in any of the le...

This week, all students will begin their hockey and safety and injury prevention units.  In PE, students will practice their stick handling, passing, and shooting skills.  At the end of the March, students in grades 3-5 will have the chance to participate in a modified hockey game! In Health,  Kindergarten  students will learn about fire safety, school safety and sign safety;  First grade  students will learn about bicycle safety, sign safety, and good touch vs. bad touch;  Second graders  will review safety signs and strangers;  3 rd  graders  will work on telling the difference between safe vs. unsafe choices;  4 th  grade  students will explore online safety, water safety, and street safety;  5 th grade  will discuss basic first aid, scoliosis, and fire safety.  As a reminder, 5th graders will be screened for scoliosis on Thursday, 3/24, so please provide any documentation of recent phys...