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Devine Field Day 2020!!!!
https://youtu.be/7sZuDZN0lxU Week of March 22nd, 2020 Greetings! This week for PE class I would like everyone to Dance. We are expecting some rainy days this week, so dance will be an excellent indoor or outdoor activity! Music tends to make us feel good and when we move our bodies, we produce endorphins- the students have heard me refer to these are happy chemicals in our bodies! You can use your phones or laptops to access music whether it is through youtube or itunes. Crank up the music, and listen to the words to follow along. If you are unsure of any dance moves, just make up your own. ( PreK and K, or anyone still unsure of their right from left side, place a sticker on your right hand and right shoe as a reminder for the hokey pokey.) As long as you are moving your body, getting your heart rate up, and having fun….that will be ideal! Please log your weekly exercise movements so when we see each other again I can see what you have done. Songs for the week of March 22nd: Hokey Pokey, Chicken Dance, ChaCha Slide PE challenge of the week! The water challenge – I challenge you to drink (at least) half of your body weight in ounces of water. For example: If you weigh 60 pounds, I challenge you to drink at least 30 ounces of water each day. Although this is your PE activity for one day this week….don’t forget that you should be getting 60 minutes of physical activity every single day. Miss you all and thank you to those of you that have sent pictures and emails. It warms my heart to see you exercising and smiling! Keep it fun! Stay Active! Week of April 5, 2020 First of all...thank you so much for all of the amazing pictures and videos you have been sending me! I have really enjoyed them! I was so impressed with your underhand tossing - and following all of the cues. Don't forget to step with your non-dominant foot. This will improve your accuracy and keep you balanced. Please scroll down to the "7 minute HIIT activity". I would like everyone to warm up with this instant activity. PreK, K, and 1 can cut down the 45 second time frame. I encourage everyone to just try your best. Invite your family to do this fun activity with you! The important part is to keep your body moving, increase your heart rate, try new moves and have fun. Your heart rate will increase and the 15 second rest time in between will be your "recovery" period before starting back up. When you scroll down you will also see some breathing techniques, yoga poses, parent/child exercises, activity and healthy eating logs. I encourage you to use them and report back to me about something you tried. * Don't forget to feel your heart before, during and after you do your instant activity. (per last week's instructions) I have had many requests for choice and outdoor activities...so this week is going to be our "free choice fun week" before the holiday. Choices include: Bike rides, nature walks, jogging, basketball, hiking, drawing an obstacle course (see pic below of an obstacle course I did at home with my kids), soccer, using your home playscape, jump rope, etc. This will be your choice and I would like you to log your activity or send me a picture or video. (I love these!) *If you are feeling overwhelmed with school work, bored, anxious, stressed, etc - try the Yoga and/or Breathing techniques listed below. I hope all of you are safe and well. Thank you parents for all of your hard work. I know this is no easy task, but you are doing a great job! Stay active, Heidi Devine Week of April 19, 2020 Hello and welcome back! I hope everyone enjoyed their week off. It was quite the weather- ranging from sunshine, to pouring rain, to freezing cold, to snow, and back to sunshine. I hope you were able to get outside and get some activity, whether it was running and playing in the sunshine or going sledding. :) This week we are going to work on Nutrition. You are going to look around the kitchen and refrigerator and find items from the 5 main food groups. Fruits, Vegetables, Meats/Proteins, Dairy, Grain Try to find items that belong in each food group, or go through the refrigerator or pantry and name what food groups the foods belong in. Below are some examples: Fruits - strawberries, oranges, bananas, kiwi, peaches, pears, grapes Vegetables - carrots, celery, broccoli, squash, green beans, zucchini Grains - bagels, biscuits, bread, crackers, oatmeal, popcorn, rice, pasta, tortillas Dairy - milk, yogurt, cheese Meats/Proteins - Chicken, beef, pork, turkey, seafood, eggs, nuts/seeds, beans/peas You should go to www.choosemyplate.gov There are specific guidelines for the appropriate serving sizes for each age group- starting with preschool There are also a number of nutrition activities for the children. Please explore the website and choose an age appropriate "game". Check your heart rate prior to the instant activity... Instant Activity - Now it's time to move your body! (Then we are going to come back to nutrition) Scroll down to the "Parent and Kiddo Workout". Preschool and Kindergarten can cut the number of each exercise in half. Third and fourth graders (if they would like) can challenge themselves by adding 5 to each number. Students should spell their names out and complete the exercises for each letter of their name. To add an extra challenge students can spell out their middle names and last names too! Check heart rates now! Hearts are really pumping now! Happy Hearts! With the permission of a parent, I would like you to get 5 foods - One from each of the 5 food groups. For example: Fruit - apple Vegetable - carrot Grain - ziplock of crackers Dairy - cheese stick Protein - bag or can of beans Couch potato Tag - If it is nice outside head outdoors and place the 5 foods in a designated area. If the weather isn't cooperating stay indoors and designate an area for the foods. If outdoors one person will flee and one person will chase. If there are more players that is even better! If playing indoors, the couch will be used as "the couch". If playing outside, bring a beach towel outdoors to use as "the couch". Once the person fleeing gets tagged, he/she must turn into a couch potato. The term couch potato often refers to a person who is lazy, eats junk food and sits on the couch all day living a very sedentary lifestyle. Being a couch potato is a very unhealthy way of living, so we want that person back up on their feet and moving. At this point if there are other players (or if it needs to be the tagger that's fine too) anyone will run to the pile of foods and get something to bring to the couch potato. The couch potato will accept the food and state what food group it belongs to- this gets he/she back into the game. Feel free to change the tagger at this point. Intra-task variations: (if ok with adult) Use a large variety of foods, mix in unhealthy options and attempt to "trick" the couch potato into accepting this, have the couch potato state how many servings are recommended each day and/or what a serving size looks like (from their research on the choose my plate website) Challenge~ Ask an adult to purchase fruit or vegetable that you have never had. Also, try to make each meal according to the Choose My Plate recommendations. Half of your plate should be fruits and vegetables, but don't forget to include grains, dairy and a protein. I would absolutely love to get pictures of your plates! Please continue to log your activity on the form provided or on a paper of your own. I encourage you to send videos and/or pictures. Thanks for all you do! Week of April 27, 2020~ This week we are going to continue with nutrition. Did anyone try a new fruit or vegetable last week? I would love to hear about it! Warm Up- Scroll down and choose 5 moves - Your challenge is to choose 5 moves that will increase your heart rate. (Happy Hearts!) PreK and K - Choose 5 moves - complete one set 1st and 2nd grade- Choose 5 moves and repeat twice (2 sets) 3rd and 4th grade - Choose 5 moves and repeat 3 times (3 sets) Breathe- Scroll down and do the Deep Breathing Using Your Hand. You will gradually feel your heart rate start to slow down. Stretching - Scroll down and choose 3 Yoga Poses - See if you can hold each one for 20 seconds. Concentrate on breathing in through your nose and out through your mouth Nutrition Activity - This week we are going to scaffold to Food Groups and making healthful choices when it comes to snacks and meals. Now that you have mastered, or are at least proficient in making choices related to the 5 Food Groups, you are going to "build" plates. I have polyspots here at home, but you can use plastic dinner plates, paper plates, etc. Set out 5 plates and label them with the following: Fruits, Vegetables, Grain, Dairy, Meats/Protein. Since it is going to be a rainy week, this will be an indoor activity. Place your plates as or far from the kitchen as you would like. Now you are going to use different locomotor movements to go to the kitchen and see if you can locate 3 items for each plate. For example- Crab Walk to the kitchen, get a cheese stick, place it on your belly (now you have to also balance food!), crab walk back and place it on the plate labeled "Dairy". Bear Walk to the kitchen, get a box of pasta, power walk back and place it on the plate labeled "Grain" Gallop to the kitchen, get a bag of beef jerky, skip back and place it on the plate labeled "Meat/Protein" Etc...... Continue doing this until you have 3 items on every plate (Pre-K should do one per plate and K should do 2 per plate) At this point take a picture and send it to me! :) If you would like a challenge you can return the items to where they belong by putting them back one at a time with different locomotor movements. If not, carry them back one plate at a time and be respectful and responsible by putting them back exactly where they came from. I hope everyone has a wonderful week. As always, thank you for all you do! Be amazing! *Don't forget to log your activity on one of the forms provided below or on your own PE log. Also - check out the Unified Arts Newsletter. Week of May 3, 2020~ This is creativity week! Due to the parade on Tuesday and Project ACES on Wednesday, I am going to ask you to be creative. Yesterday, I created an obstacle course with my children. I am going to ask you to do the same. I would like you to get creative and make an obstacle course with at least 5 stations/centers. It is going to be a beautiful week so hopefully you can do this outside! Here is the breakdown of my obstacle course. (Keep in mind I am aware that you will not have the same equipment that I have here at home - that is where your creativity comes into play) The Devine Obstacle Course - Go across the monkey bars on the playset Do 5 TRX Supermans (You could do jumping jacks, plank, balance on one foot, etc) Climb playset rock wall and go down the slide Run to the Battlerope and do 5 slams (you could throw a ball) Jump in the potato sack (we used an old pillowcase) Jump across the agility ladder on 2 feet (you could use chalk to draw squares on the driveway) 5 Kettle bell swings (you could do squats) Push a child size wheelbarrow with firewood in it Roll a tire Jump in a hula hoop 10 times (you could use chalk to draw a circle in your driveway) Army crawl under a rope (a parent could stand in the grass and hold a stick for you to crawl under) These are just ideas and things that I did with my kids. I want you to be creative - after setting up, see if you can go through your obstacle course 5 times! You could also time yourself to see how long it takes you to complete it, then do it again to try and beat your time. I can't wait to see pictures and videos of you and your obstacle courses! Also, don't forget that Tuesday is the parade and Wednesday is Project Aces. It is going to be a great week!! May is National Physical Fitness and Sports Month. Let's keep moving!! I would love to see you play the song Cha Cha Slide for Project Aces - do all the moves, dance and have fun!! If you want a challenge- see if you can do the Cha Cha Slide in the plank position!! Week of May 10, 2020 ~ Scroll down below to see the photos. Warm Up - I would like you to do the Tabata workout. Tabata is a HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) with a twist! It has shorter intervals though and you work harder. You work as hard as you can for 20 seconds, then recover (rest) for 10 seconds. "Tabata" got it's name from a man named Izumi Tabata who used this method to train Olympic speed skaters. Follow your Tabata workout with a few light static stretches- hold each stretch for 20 seconds Modification- PreK and K - and anyone else who feels they need to can replace burpees with jumps, replace push ups with plank - Also, cut the interval time to 5 seconds on, 5 seconds, off Lesson - Look at the pictures below. I would like you to draw a target. 5 points in the center, all the way down to 1 point on the outside ring. Make a line for a starting point (you can adjust this as needed). Gather some rocks (5-10) and stand with 2 feet at the starting line. Cues: Feet together, rock in one hand with palm up (think back to the underhand box tossing activity a few weeks ago), step forward with non-dominant foot, point fingers and toes towards target, follow through After all of the rocks have been tossed you will add up all of your points. Once you have your total, gather the rocks, go back to the starting line and try to beat your score. Repeat as many times as you'd like! Send me a picture! :) Variations: If you do not have chalk get creative and use anything you have to make the targets- a small hula hoop in the center followed by a circle made out of rope If you prefer to do this indoor - make your layered target out of anything you have inside- a ring of pillows, a circle of socks, toys, hula hoop, etc. Use a light balls or balled up socks for tossing Move closer if you are not getting your object in the targets Move further back if you need a challenge Compete against a sibling or parent! As always...have FUN! I am missing all of you and LOVED your ACES videos and pictures. As of yesterday I am still receiving a couple here and there. This is the last call- I will be tallying up the points today and posting the grade level with the highest participation. Stay tuned! Happy Mother's Day to all the mamas out there! I hope you had a wonderful day with your children. I took my kiddos hiking to the Tri-State marker. It was such a beautiful day for a hike and so much fun explaining how we were in 3 different states. I was able to get some selfie pics that you can see on my homepage. There is parking at the trail in Thompson and it is an easy hike for children. It is approximately 1.7 miles round trip. Great form of exercise, geography lesson, family time, and outdoor fun! THANK YOU for such a great parade - it was truly heartwarming to see so many students and families!!! Week of May 17, 2020 Welcome back to another week of fun movement! Start with the Tabata warm up - modify like last week if necessary! Striking with Implements This week you are going to get crafty! I would like you to make paddles or if you have racquets you can use those. You can use paper plates and popsicle sticks - that is what we did here at my house. You could also locate a cardboard box and cut it into circles. (See the pictures below) You can make one, or if you have a sibling or an adult an home that would like to play with you, have them make one too. The more the merrier! You can even decorate your paddle with crayons and markers and I can share your art work with Miss Furbush. She would be very impressed! Get creative and have some fun with this. To make the handles, glue the popsicle sticks on your plate or cardboard circles. Once you have your paddles use a neutral grip by wrapping you hand completely around your handle/popsicle stick. (see picture below). Sometimes when gripping we are tempted to point our index finger...try not to do this. Wrapping all five fingers around will protect your fingers in future sports while gripping implements. You can use any type of ball when you start striking with your paddle. Pre-K and K would do best with a balloon. Grades 1 and 2 might want to use a soft, light ball. (yarn ball, a balled up sock, etc) Grades 3 and 4 might want a challenge. You could use a ping pong ball or a super bouncy ball. Try different pieces of equipment and use what is best for you so you are successful, with a bit of a challenge. First try and hit the balloon or ball in the air and see how many times you can strike it before it touches the ground (or the floor if you are playing inside). Then repeat and try to beat your score. If you have a partner to play with now you can volley, by hitting the ball back and forth to each other. Count how many consecutive times you can keep it in the air. Challenges: Use different types of balls, touch the floor with your hand after you hit the ball, turn in a circle, use your non-dominant hand, count by 2's, by 3's Cool Down by doing the Yoga poses in the picture below - hold each pose for 20 seconds. Don't forget to send me a picture or video! Have so much fun! Miss you all! Thank you to all of the parents and guardians for all you do! Week of May 24th, 2020 Warm Up: See the Heart Workout below. Prek & K: Complete HEART 2 times 1 & 2: Complete HEART 3 times 3: Complete HEART 4 times 4: Complete HEART 5 times Floor Is Lava: Next we are going to do an activity that I think is a favorite for all age groups! (even mommies like me play it with my kids...maybe not as graceful...but I try!) It is so much fun! Look around your house (or outdoors for anything you can use for "safe spots" . At my house we use hulahoops, pillows, blankets, the couch, chairs, stuffed animals, pieces of construction paper, kitchen towels, beach towels, cardboard, etc. Use anything you can safely land on. Gather up these items and scatter them around the living room or outside. (Make sure you promise the adult at home that you will put them back where they belong. :) Once you have them scattered all of these items are safe spots and everything else is hot lava! You cannot go in the lava! You have to figure out how to jump or hop to each safe spot. If you feel the safe spots are too far or too close adjust them so you are successful, but challenged. Variations: Have someone turn music on and keep moving until the music stops and you must be on a safe spot and not lava when the music stops Have someone call out a color of a safe spot and you have 5 seconds to get to a safe spot that is that particular color Be creative! Cool Down: Top 10 Flexibility Exercises PreK and K - Choose 3 stretches K & 1 - Choose 5 2 & 3 - Choose 7 4 - Do all 10 Hopefully you can get outside this week - it looks like we are going to have gorgeous weather! Ride your bike, play in the yard, go for a walk, go hiking - these are all fun extra activities you can do. Don't forget to check in and send me an email or a video or picture playing Floor is Lava. I can't wait to see your moves and your smiling faces. I miss you all! STAY TUNED FOR VIRTUAL FIELD DAY INFORMATION! I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS! Week of May 31, 2020~ After looking at the forecast for this week I decided I would like you to go on an outdoor adventure! This will be an excellent week to be outside. I would like you to pick your favorite outdoor activity and do this for at least 30 minutes...but the longer the better! Some choices include: walking, running, biking, hiking, tag, playset, set up an obstacle course, nature walk, any type of sport, etc. I took my children to Mashamoquet Brook State Park today and they loved hiking and the challenge of walking across all the rocks. It was a great work out and so much fun being together, enjoying the scenery, soaking up the sunshine, and identifying trees, flowers, etc. Don't forget to send me an email to let me know what you did or a picture or video. I look forward to hearing from you! Miss you all! |