• Basic locomotor skill introduction and development ( running, skipping hopping, jumping, leaping, galloping, etc.)
• Personal fitness development: Activities that develop, strength, flexibility and cardiovascular endurance
• Appropriate use of playground equipment and blacktop area games
• Long and short rope jumping skills
• Tumbling and self testing activities
• Low balance beam activities
• Basic ball skills and related games
• Rhythm and creative movement activities
• Net activities
• Parachute activities
• Simple concept games
• Tag games
• Running skills related to track and field events
• Using manipulatives - hula hoops, bean bags, wands, deck tennis rings

Your student is expected to demonstrate:

1. Age appropriate fitness
2. Age appropriate motor skills
3. Age appropriate body control and coordination

To assess your child's progress in these areas several formal standardized and informal, more subjective tests are given throughout the school year. Fitness testing is typically done in the fall and repeated in the spring. To evaluate abdominal strength students are asked to perform as many bent knee sit ups as they can in one minute. A sit and reach calipered box is used to check the flexibility of the lower back and back of the thighs. These tests have been selected from a battery of those suggested by the American Alliance of Physical Education, Health, Recreation and Dance. National norms are used to define all levels of fitness. To achieve a proficient score (3) a student must perform in the 60th percentile. A (4) indicates that the performance is in the 90th percentile or above. Fitness scores are a snapshot of progress at a specific time in your child's development. Parents are encouraged to look at student's progress and improvement over time.

Levels of motor skill performance that are appropriate for each grade level have been established by Roseville's elementary physical education specialists. Students must demonstrate body control, balance, and coordination while performing basic locomotor skills ( running, galloping, skipping, hopping) they must be able to apply these skills with ease in a variety of physical activities. To receive a proficient coordination score (3) they must be able to walk the length of a balance beam, dribble a prescribed number of seconds ( 30 for grade 2) and jump rope (7 for gr.1,- 10 for gr.2, 15 for gr.3) times while an adult twirls.

Students are encouraged to understand the importance of staying fit and maintaining a healthy life style. Emphasis is placed on personal improvement.

Students must wear soft -soled shoes with ties or velcro straps and flat soles to participate in physical education class (please no slip-ons, boots or sandals).

If your child needs to be excused from an activity for one class period, please send a note to the physical education teacher.

If your child's activity level needs to be restricted or limited please send a note to the nurse's office. Excuses for more than one week require a doctor's statement.