Kindergarten PE Standards and Q1 Outline

Kindergarten PE Standards

Standard 1: Movement Competence and Understanding

  • Demonstrate competency in motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities.
  • Demonstrate body and spatial awareness through movement.
  • Apply movement concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics to learning and performing physical activities.
  • Locate and move the major parts of the body.

Standard 2: Physical and Personal Wellness.

  • Participate in and understand the benefits of regular physical activity.
  • Understand that physical activity increases the heart rate, making the heart stronger.
  • Exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings.
  • Demonstrate respect for self, others, and equipment.

Standard 3: Social Emotional Wellness

  • Exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings.
  • Demonstrate respect for self, others, and equipment.
  • Exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings.
  • Demonstrate the ability to follow directions.

Standard 4: Prevention and Risk Management

  • Apply personal safety knowledge and skills to prevent and treat injury.
  • Apply safe practices, rules, and procedures.
  • Demonstrate competency in motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities.
  • Demonstrate basic locomotor and non-locomotor skills and rhythmic and cross-lateral movements.
 

Week1:  During the first week in Kindergarten Physical Education, we will be learning the rules, routines, and procedures that will be using in my class.  We will also be covering how to be safe in the gym with various safety rules as well as how to respect one’s self, respect others, and to respect the equipment/gym.  We will review frequently and often to help set up the new Kinder students for success in PE.  This week we will also be learning different locomotor movements, in which we will practice the entire rotation, and how to move safely within the gym.  Students will be participating and learning various chase and flee activities that include different spatial relationships and learning about the benefits of physical activity and why participation in these activities is important.

 

Week 2:  In week two, students will be learning how to move to open space while moving to designated cues using different speeds and locomotor movements.  Students will also be practicing how to move safely in straight, curved, and zig zagged pathways during various activities.  We will also be learning a little about the heart and heartrate, focusing on understanding that physical activity increases the heart rate making the heart stronger.

 

Week 3- This week we will be focusing on moving specified body parts in response to a variety of sensory cues such as auditory or visual.  We will be working on creating shapes at high, medium, and low levels by using hands, arms, torso, feet, and legs in a variety of combinations, as well as locating and moving the major parts of the body.  We will also be reviewing the heart and heartrate but also learning about the major parts of the body and how the body moves.

 

Week 4:  This week we will be introducing various new pieces of equipment and implementing station activities.  We will focus on throwing, rolling, and catching this week and how to be safe using different and new types of PE equipment as well as learning the cues to complete specific movements.  During this unit we will also be learning about germs and review hand washing as well as how to prevent sickness.