Bean Bag Toe Tag Game Intermediate students Sept 20, 2024

Students used bean bags to practice underhand throws along the ground to hit the opposing players' feet. If they get out they come to the sideline and do 10 of an exercise and re enter the game.

Sept 16-20, 2024

All classes competed in the school wide Fastest Class in the school challenge where each class work together to complete the most laps possible in 5 minutes. It is normed by the number of laps being divided by the number of kids. The 4th grade class was this fall's winners! Congrats to the 4th graders and Ms. Petropoulos!

Primary Soccer Dribbling

Students practiced a variety of dribbling moves to fine tune their dribbling skills in our soccer unit.

Sept 9-13

Students throughout the school completed the Pacer Test where they run as many laps as they can without stopping, adapting to the pace speeding up as it goes on. We talked about goal setting and brainstormed ideas to help us do better when we attempt it again in the spring.

We have a parents soccer night this fall to take advantage of our great turf space and get to know other soccer fans! Come out and join us for our next parent sports event.

Dead Ants Game Sept 3-6

Intermediate students learned a collaborative tag game called Dead Ants where students work together to rescue any "dead ants" by jointly carrying them from the place they were frozen to a hula hoop.

Hula Hut Relays August 26-30

We started the school year doing a series of team building activities where students had to use hula hoops to complete a series of challenges around building hula huts out of the hoops.

We wrapped up our March Madness school tournament for grades 4-8th and Harrison Machemer won the Women’s NCAA Tournament bracket and Troy Gonzalez won the Men’s NCAA tournament bracket for our school. Check out the photo with them and their trophies. Congrats!

April 1-5, 2024 Jr. High Rugby Unit

Jr High students continued their rugby unit by playing a series of rugby build up games and learning about the line out part of the game. Students played games like monkey in the middle, partner score, and rugby tag. Students are using flags instead of being tackled. They learned about different plays to run out of a line out and how to throw a line out pass.

March 11-15, 2024 Pi Day Relays

Students celebrated Pi Day with races around finding the first 7 digits of Pi using uno cards and a relay format.

March 4-8 Team Building Challenges

Students engaged in several team building games called Cross the River and Reverse Centipede. In Cross the River teams had to use 2 fewer poly spots than people on their team to get across the gym from one side to the other. In Reverse centipede students had to hold up a mat with their feet and move the mat across the gym without letting it touch the ground. Groups were timed to see who could make it across in the least amount of time.

March 4-8 Primary Jump Rope Unit

Students started the unit with jumping over a stationary rope to practice the footwork in some of the basic tricks to help ease students into jumping rope.

PE Feb 12-16, 2024 Basketball Units

Chinese New Year Performance Feb 2024

On Thursday primary students had the amazing opportunity to watch in the gym a live Chinese New Year Performance complete with twirling dragon flags. The kids loved trying out these flags after the presentation.

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