PE Grades - Trimester 1

First trimester ends.  Students and parents are anxious to see the first Report Card of the school year. As a parent, I know the feeling.  Many of you know Report Cards went home on December 9.  I hope and your child took a look the PE grades.
Our goal in PE is to develop physically active students who enjoy keeping their bodies fit, healthy, and strong.  To do that, we focus on developing physical skills (what you can do), fitness concepts (what you know about physical fitness), and how to interact and behave when physically active and/or competing.
I am tasked to grade students on the PE learning targets we have covered this year ONLY.  It is tricky when I have taught most of our students for many years.  Hopefully, you have read the comments sections of the PE grades to find our what we have covered during the first trimester.  I understand my lengthy comments may have been cut off.  So here is the curriculum piece in its entirety for each grade.  Please let me know if you have any questions.

5th, 4th, 3rd Grade
During the 19 visits to PE in the first trimester, these were some of the skills we worked on:  hand striking, racquet striking, locomotor skills, physical fitness/exercise skills, calculating heart rate and what it means, muscles and areas of the body in relationship to exercise, exercise benefits, teamwork and being good sports with ALL classmates, praising others, independently staying on task, following expectations, and more.  Some skills were taught to proficiency and others we will continue to develop.  All students were graded on their performance during the 2014-15 first trimester only.

2nd, 1st Grade
During the 19 visits to PE in the first trimester, these were some of the skills we worked on:  locomotor skills (skip, gallop), underhand toss/roll, hand striking, ball control, eye-hand coordination, catching, rhythms (jump rope, hula hoops), spatial and body awareness, changes that happen to our body during exercise, exercise benefits, teamwork and being good sports with ALL classmates, independently staying on task, following expectations, and more.  Some skills were taught to proficiency and others we will continue to develop.  All students were graded on their performance during the 2014-15 first trimester only.