Galesburg-Augusta Primary School

Jeff Merasco
269-484-2040

Mr. Merasco's G-A Physical Education Facebook Page

News

Welcome to Galesburg Augusta Health and Wellness Program! The program is geared towards fun, success and healthy living. I will provide a mixture of individual and team fundamental skills, cooperative learning, aerobic activity and health lessons. Please check out the News link above for program information and the latest news.

Program Highlights:

• MEAP preparations

• Jump Rope for Heart

• Fitness Club

• Physical Fitness testing

• Field Day

American Heart Association

Michigan Health & Wellness

The President's Challenge

Mayo Clinic Healthy Lifestyle

ESPN

Notre Dame

M Go Blue

Treadmill Reviews

The elementary physical education curriculum at the Primary and Intermediate schools will focus on the concept of unity of mind and body based upon developing a holistic person in grades K-5. The primary focus of the physical education program is to develop and maintain fundamental motor skills, physical fitness, sport skills, cognitive knowledge and personal and social skills.

Development and growth of each student will be facilitated by a comprehensive guided instruction and participation in motor appropriate activities, sport skills, leisure activities, individual activities and physical fitness opportunities. Through the physical education program students will be able to recognize personal capabilities and develop a positive, healthy and realistic self-image. Students will also be encouraged to learn social skills such as how to share, win or lose and act responsibly in-group situations.

• Provide a safe and inviting environment for all children

• Curriculum includes the physical, psychomotor, cognitive and health domains

• Lessons are developmentally appropriate

• Health and Wellness is a program taught by a trained educator that provides students with opportunities to develop and maintain the skills necessary to live a healthy lifestyle.

• A common misperception is that Health and Wellness (PE) and gym class are synonyms. Gym class entails no skill learning, little instruction, and a competitive atmosphere where only athletes succeed.

• Promotes changes in brain structure and function.

• Reduces the risk of developing heart disease, diabetes and high blood pressure

• Promotes lifelong physical fitness

• Helps maintain healthy bones, muscle, and joints

• Helps maintain and/or improve health by increasing cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, endurance, flexibility, and body composition.

• KIDS FEEL GREAT AND HAVE FUN!!!

1. Locomotor skills: walk, skip, jump, run, slide, gallop, etc.

2. Non-locomotor skills: push-pull, over-under, twist-turn, overhand-underhand, etc.

3. Manipulative skills: catch, throw, toss, bounce, dribble, jump rope, kick, tumbling, balance, striking, hula hoops, parachute, cup stacking, wall climbing

4. Levels: low, medium, high

5. Pathways: straight, zig-zag, curved, diagonal,forward, backward

6. Physical fitness

7. Rhythmic Activities

8. Bicycle Safety

9. Healthy Eating

10. Tag Games

1. Reinforcement of Basic Motor Skills

   1. Locomotor activities

   2. Non-Locomotor activities

   3. Manipulative skills

2. Levels

3. Pathways

4. Increase Physical Fitness

5. Development of Rhythmic Activities

6. Introduction for Fundamental Motor Skills to be used across a lifetime

Football skills, basketball skills, volleyball skills, racquet skills, bowling, lacrosse, gymnastic skills.

1. Benefits of exercise across a lifetime

2. Weight Control

3. Aerobic and Anaerobic exercise

4. Self-esteem

5. Total Body Fitness (Presidential Physical Fitness Testing)

6. Introduction to Sport Skills

Football, basketball, floor hockey, soccer, volleyball, tennis, lacrosse, archery, badminton, softball-baseball, swimming, bowling, dance