P.S. 69Q
The Jackson Heights School
Sports Newsletter
P.S. 69 Sports Edition
Mr. Alfano September
Fit News
Welcome back to another exciting school year! Coach Alfano here with the first edition of Fit-News for the year. Fit-News will be a newsletter released bringing news of what’s happening in the physical education classes!
This year we welcome a 3rd physical education teacher to the team - Coach Heubish! Coach Heubish brings with him a wealth of experience from the middle school level. We are excited to have Coach Heubish and some new and exciting lessons for our school!
This month is Fitness Month here at PS69Q! Our lessons focus on fitness exercises which is the staple of any physical education department. Fitness is one of the most important aspects of one’s life and we aim to teach simple, yet fun ways to stay fit and live long, active and healthy lifestyles.
Some of our lessons this month have been:
Fitness Monopoly:
Students stand along the perimeter of the gym on a fitness floor spot which has an exercise listed on each (jumping jacks, sit ups, etc). The class takes turns rolling dice and then everyone walks that number of new spaced to a new spot. They then perform the exercise on the spot that they landed on for 30-seconds and then a new roller gets a turn to roll.
PE Dice:
The class votes on 6 exercises that they like. We then assign each exercise to a number 1-6 to correspond with the options on the dice. Students take turns rolling the dice and then the entire class does the exercise that corresponds to the number that is rolled.
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Flip it Fitness:
Each student pairs with a partner and they get a cone. The class votes on 3 of their favorite exercises and then take turns each flipping the cone once. There are 2 flips during a round. The possible outcomes are that (1) the cones land standing up both times, (2) the cone lands on its side both times, (3) the cone lands standing up and on its side once each. Each of the possible outcomes is associated with one of the three exercises that was voted upon. As the partners play a round of flip cone, they do the exercise that they got based on the outcome of their flips.
Fit-Tac-Toe:
The class is divided into teams. Each team is assigned a specific color of beanbags (red, blue, purple, green, orange, yellow). Each color is its own team. We place floor spots on the floor to make a tic tac toe board. The teams then compete in a relay race. The 1st person from each team runs across the gym, grabs one of their teams bean bags and place it on the tic tac toe board and then runs back to their team as the next person on their team goes. The race continues until one team gets “Tic Tac Toe” by placing 3 beanbags in a row either vertically, horizontally or diagonally.
Another version of this game adds a strategic element where students can either place one of their beanbags on the board…OR…they can move one of the bags of either team, that is already on the board, from one spot to another spot on the board.
Well that does it for this edition of Fit-News. See you next month!
Stay Fit,
Coach Alfano