Gymnastics Unit - EC3 and EC4

GYMNASTICS UNIT
Gymnastics is a great way to help students develop their locomotor and balance skills as well as body and spatial awareness.

• This unit is designed to develop the mind and body connection in students, enhance their body awareness, and teach them to move in a controlled and safe manner. In other words, this unit aims to improve body management through the use of fundamental movement skills.
• In this unit, students will be exposed to a variety of experiences including stretching, traveling, balancing and rolling. The activities used and the skills learned will help improve students’ body management, movement control, and development of locomotor and non-locomotor skills.
• This unit promotes coordination, flexibility, agility, muscular strength, and muscular endurance. 

Early Childhood 3 

       

Early Childhood 4 

Track and Field EC3 & EC4

Athletic Unit

During the past weeks, we have had our students participate in numerous activities and games with the goal being to improve their skills related to running, jumping and throwing. We tried our best to create opportunities that allowed the students to inquire into the best ways to run, throw and jump. 

Early Childhood 3 

Early Childhood 4 

The final week of our Athletics unit culminated with the annual 

Track and Field Event 

Swimming levels

Swimming levels now are easy to follow for our kinder and 1st grade students.

Students will recognize their swimming level and then keep working to get the next level of achievement.

 

Kinder and 1st grade levels

Level blue is the first level, 2nd level is yellow, 3rd level is red and 4th level is green. Students will be placed at a level according to their skills and regardless of their grade. Within a grade we could find children with varied skills, therefore, the student may be placed at a different level than their peers. The class will be, however, conducted per grade level. We will focus on each child individually, to train and motivate them until they can reach their next level. At the end of the trimester, we will re-evaluate the students and assess the level achieved.

 

2nd grade swimming program

Students will be placed at a level according to their skills and regardless of their grade. Within a grade we could find children with varied skills, therefore, the student may be placed at a different level than their peers. The class will be, however, conducted per grade level. We will focus on each child individually, to train and motivate them until they can reach their next level. At the end of the trimester, we will re-evaluate the students and assess the level achieved.

 

Working breaststroke kick, "froggy kick"

Students working the side breath, crawl style.

 

 

Students working backstroke