November Newsletter
GIORGI’S GYM
The following calendar is a sample of what can be found each month on the Hemingford Schools website: Schools, Elementary, Academics, Physical Education. Be sure and get out and exercise as a family after your Thanksgiving meal – take a hike, a walk, or play softball! Mrs. G
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1 Play tag today at school. Include all of your friends. Use different locomotor activities in the game. |
2 Make an obstacle course in your house or backyard. Now try it out! |
3 Practice dribbling a ball with one hand, now the other hand. Now change hands with each bounce. |
4 Throw underhand at a target. Take one step away and practice some more. Keep stepping back to make it harder. |
5 Practice hula hooping today. Get your parent or another adult to try too! |
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6 Practice frog jumps across the backyard or down a sidewalk. |
7 Use two empty water bottles to tap out rhythms. Tap your name, making a new pattern for each letter. Make up new patterns. |
8 Pretend you are a horse and gallop around the playground at school today. |
9 Walk on a board or crack in the sidewalk-can you stay on the line? Now balance on one foot. Switch feet. Strike a pose! |
10 Jog laps around the playground at school today. Can you jog without getting tired? Take slow and deep breaths. |
11 Practice jumping off of something and landing softly. Start with a low step. |
12 Stand on one foot and practice hopping. Change feet and practice on both legs. Now hop backwards. |
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13 Place a ball on the ground and see if you can jump forward and backward over the ball. |
14 Play catch with a friend during recess today. Try for 100 good catches! |
15 Practice your jump roping skills today. |
16 Jump side to side over a line. Now jump from one spot to another spot. Change the distance for a long jump. |
17 Crab walk around the playground today. |
18 Play partner tag with a friend today. Play until you are tired. Try again later. |
19 Sing a happy song and skip around the neighborhood today. |
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20 Practice dribbling a ball with your feet today. |
21 Practice leaping from one leg to another. Pretend you are leaping over a turtle. |
22 Try catching a ball that you throw to yourself using a plastic cup. Keep your eyes on the ball. |
23 Practice kicking a ball with a friend. Can you kick the ball right to your partner? |
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25 Think up activities that start with every letter of the alphabet and do them. A is for alligator crawl, B is for bouncing. Make up your own. |
26 Practice sliding to the right and sliding to the left. What sports use sliding? |
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27 Bounce a ball under each leg and catch it.
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28 Do ten curl ups. Find ten times to do this today. |
.29 Use a stuffed animal to play catch with somebody. |
30 Practice vertical jumping today-jump high and reach for the sky. |
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November 2011
Duplicated with permission from the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE).