2nd Grade Standards and Rotation Outline
2nd Grade 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 the elements of movement in combination with a variety of locomotor skills.
- Demonstrate control and balance in traveling and weight-bearing activities using a variety of body parts and implements.
- Use feedback to improve performance.
Standard 2: Physical and Personal Wellness
- Participate in and understand the benefits of regular physical activity.
- Identify healthy habits for personal wellness.
Standard 3: Social Emotional Wellness
- Exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings.
- Demonstrate positive and helpful behavior and words toward other students.
Standard 4: Prevention and Risk Management
- Apply personal safety knowledge and skills to prevent and treat injury.
- Apply rules, procedures, and safe practices in the classroom.
Week 1: During week one in second grade PE we will be learning the rules, routines, and procedures that will be using in my class. We will 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 throughout the year to help all students succeed and be safe in PE. We will also be reviewing/learning new locomotor movements and demonstrating skipping, hopping, galloping, and sliding while transitioning on command, transitions between sequential motor skills such as running into a jump. As well as moving using the concepts of space awareness and movement control to run, hop, and skip in different ways in a large group without bumping into others or falling. We will also learn/review heartrate and taking responsibility for one’s own health is an essential step toward developing and maintaining a healthy active lifestyle, and how the body reacts positively to physical exercise.
Week 2: In week 2 we will start our throwing and catching unit. Students will learn/review the cues to throwing and catching leading into throwing and catching while stationary or moving with a partner through various games or activities. Students will also learn how to explain the fuel requirements of the body during physical activity and inactivity and will learn how to identify healthy food choices to fuel the body.
Week 3: During this week we will start our dribbling and kicking unit. We will focus on how to kick a stationary and moving object using a simple kicking pattern, and how to dribble a ball with our feet while staying in control of the ball and our body. I will also be introducing modified soccer related activities/games throughout the unit. We will also be learning about sleep and how to determine the proper amount of sleep to get every night and the role of water as an essential nutrient for the brain and body.
Week 4: Our last unit of the first rotation will be our striking unit. We will focus on using body parts and light implements to strike stationary and moving objects through various games and activities. We will also be learning how to identify feelings resulting from challenges, successes, and failures in physical activity.