Week 22

Grades K-6 will all be learning floor hockey skills such as dribbling the puck, shooting, and passing.  Along with floor hockey skills the students will be demonstrating their flexibility for a fitness test grade conducted through the sit and reach test.  The class will be set up in a stations style approach consisting of 1. the sit and reach test, 2. partner pass, 3. goalie challenge, 4. target wall shoot, 5. Relay race dribbling, and finally 6. Dribble zig zag race.  

Week 21

Grades 3-6
This week we will be working on badminton skills. This is a new skill for our students and a new sport that they have not been exposed to during physical education classes before. The students are going to be learning different ways to pass the birdie with badminton rackets, different serves, and how to move during game play.

Grades K-2nd
This week the students will be working with scoopers and hula hoops. We will be going over different skills and tricks to use with the scoopers. Some skills and tricks include tossing with a partner, tossing up and spinning while catching it. With the hula hoops we will be teaching and going over different skills such as jump roping with the hula hoops, hoping in and out of the hula hoops, etc.

Ms. B and I hope the students are excited and enjoy physical education class! Next week we will be starting floor hockey skills.

Welcome Back!

Dear students and parents/guardians,

      I want to welcome everyone back and I hope both my students and their parents/guardians had a great summer.  This years physical education class will consist of many fun and exciting activities/games that will promote teamwork, leadership, cooperation, physical fitness, and skills needed to develop the students into being self sufficient lifelong learners.  I plan to incorporate games such as basketball, kickball, and floor hockey among other things to promote the skills listed above.  To start things off this year I will present a unit next week called "cooperative games" in which the students will have to work together to solve problems.  This unit will include areas such as teamwork, communication, and problem solving.  It will also assist in helping the students get familiar with their new classmates. 

      Some information that parents/guardians might be interested in are as followed-

1. Students should be dressed for class in a solid color tee shirt or polo shirt or any Spartan shirt.  Shorts are allowed to be worn for P.E. class until daylight savings time.  After that the students will need to wear athletic pants such as sweatpants or jogging pants.  Both the shorts and pants can have logos on them this year for P.E. class.  Sneakers are also a must for Physical Education.

2. Students should show either a doctors note or note from their parents/guardian pertaining to the physical health of the student (ie: if the student can't participate in P.E. due to a broken arm, sickness, injury, ect.)

3. Many different avenues will be used for grading the students such as skill tests, pencil and paper assessments, participation, and sportsmanship.  

      I will use this means of communication to post every unit of instruction I will be teaching and also for listing homework if necessary.  I look forward to a exciting productive year at North Schuylkill Elementary School.  If you have any questions, comments, or concerns feel free to send me an email at (thinkel@northschuylkill.net) and I will get back to you as soon as I can.

Thank you,
Mr. Hinkel (NSE Physical Education Teacher)

Week 33

K-2nd Grades will learn/develop hula hoop skills.  They will also play team work games utilizing the hula hoops to pass it along in a conjoined circle and also use the hoops to transport their team from one side of the gym to the next.

3-6th Grades will be participating in a throwing/team strategy game called container ball.  The students will have to work together as a team to make their objects into the other teams container avoiding capture along the way.  This game promotes communication, collaboration, strategy, risk/reward analysis, and also teamwork.

Next 3 Weeks

Grades K-6 will be participating in basketball skills/games.  The students will be taught skills such as dribbling, passing, shooting, and different offensive/defensive strategies.  We will play dribbling games such as relay races while dribbling, safe dribble, and musical dribbling.  Over the three weeks I will also be conducting the push-up fitness test.  At the end of the basketball unit we will also have a cognitive assessment to see how much the students learned about basketball over the past 3 weeks.

Next 3 Weeks

Students in grades K-6 will participate in a three week soccer unit.  The students will practice passing, dribbling, and shooting with soccer balls.  Grades 3-6 will play small sided games of soccer while grades k-2 will participate in different soccer activities/skills such as dribbling relay races, goalie challenge games, and also a variety of skill stations.

Week 6

All Classes

The next two weeks will consist of cooperative games.  These games will promote communication, cooperation, team building, and much much more.  The students will have different challenges to complete such as everyone making it across the gym floor without touching it by using various equipment.  The students will have to work together to make it across.