Mr. Haliburda's P.E. blog

Students and Parents,

If you still have a donation to turn in, please bring it to the Howard office before Thursday, May 4th at 9.m.

Thank you,

Frank Haliburda

Dear chess club students and parents,

This Friday, I will have a pizza party to celebrate the season from 3:35-4:15 p.m.  To start the party, I will hand out the awards.  I will then get the students pizza, pop, and chips to eat while they play chess games for the rest of the time.  I would greatly appreciate it if you could plan to pick up your child as soon as we are finished.

I want to thank all of the students for joining the team this season!!  I also want thank all of the parents for allowing your child/children to come out for the team!!  I though it was a success again this year!!!  They ALL learned how to play the game and improved throughout the season.  My hope is that all the 4th graders will come out again next year and that the 5th graders try to join their middle school team in 6th grade.

Thanks again,

Frank Haliburda

Chess Club Coach

This week, the Kindergarten-3rd grade grade classes will start my softball unit.  They will start the unit by learning and practicing throwing and catching in a variety of ways.  The 4th-5th grade classes will start out the week by taking the skeletal system (4th) and the muscular system (5th) test on google classroom.  I will then let them play a game with the remaining time left in the class.  Then for the final class of the week, they will run a half mile outside to practice for the presidential mile run, if the weather is nice enough.  To finish the class, I will have them start my softball unit.

This week, I had the Kindergarten-2nd grade classes practice their locomotor skill (skipping) for the 4th marking period in a variety of ways.  They used it during the warm-up and during each of the tagging games we played.  The 3rd grade classes had a game day for the first class, because we are between units.  Then for the second class of the week they learned and played a kickball game.  I am using the kickball game as a lead-up to the last unit, which is softball.  The 4th-5th grade classes reviewed the skeletal system (4th) and the muscular system (5th) for the first class of the week. Then for the second class of the week they took a quiz on them on google classroom.  I was able to let them play a game for the rest of the classes when we they were finished.

This week every class will be practicing jump roping in a variety of ways during the JRFH event/stations.  The classes will be doing this during each of their P.E. classes for the week.  The event/station days next week will be fun and tiring at the same time!  The students will have the opportunity to go to the drinking fountain anytime during the event/stations.  They can also take a rest, as needed at their station.  My hope is the students will have fun while jumping rope for a great cause!  The final day the donations will be accepted will be Friday, April 28th.

During these two weeks, I will have all of my classes learn and practice a variety of jump rope skills, using multiple pieces of equipment.  The skills and equipment used will include short jump roping, long jump roping, two person jump roping, speed jumping, Chinese jump roping, skip-it’s, hoop jumpers, jump batons, and hula-hoops.  Then during the week of April 17th-21st I will have stations for all of my classes to practice all of the skills they have learned, using the equipment I listed above.

The 1st-5th grade students will be attending a jump rope for heart assembly on Monday, March 27th at 9 a.m.  The presenter from the American Heart Association will let the students know about the program and the donation process.  The students will also be taking home the donation envelope that same day.

My Jump Rope for Heart stations/event week will be April 17th-24th and my deadline for turning in donations will be April 28th.

The Kindergarten-2nd graders will be graded on the slide for the locomotor skill and catching a fly ball for the the object control skill. Next, the third graders will be graded on the jump rope for the object control skill. Finally, the 4th and 5th graders will be graded on the sit and reach test for flexibility for the physical fitness skill and the underhand strike/serve for the object control skill.

All classes will be learning a personal/social skill for this marking period. This will be part of their sportsmanship grade. The Kindergarten-3rd grades will learn about cooperation and the 4th and 5th graders will learn and write in their journals about respect.

The 1st – 3rd graders will learn about the personal/social skill cooperation throughout the 3rd marking period.  I will constantly remind the students using the poster on the gym will about the different ways that they should use cooperation.

The 4th and 5th graders will learn about the personal/social skill respect for self and others throughout the 3rd marking period.  I will constantly remind the students using the poster on the gym will about the different ways that they should use respect their self and others.  I will have both grades write in their journals about respect and the different way to use it.  They will also write sentences in their journals about how they have had respect in their own life.

These personal/social skills will be used as a main part of the students grade for sportsmanship on their report card.

This is a week that I am in between units for all classes, so I will have them practice variety of games and activity this week.  I will be starting my Jump Rope for Heart unit next week.  There will be a short assembly in the gym next Monday, March 27th at 9.m. to kick of the program.  I will send home the donation envelopes with the students that day and they will have until April 28th to bring the donations back in.