P.E.

​ ​Grades:1-3​ ​ Week:6
Voici les activités suggérées pour cette semaine. Below are the suggested Daily Physical Activities that your child can do
over the course of the week along with some links to guided lessons. 30 mins of Daily Physical Activity is recommended.

Activity 1:​ ​Échauffement (​Warm up activity) Activity 2:​ Strike Force!

de fitness ​(Workout)
​Séance
Curricular Focus:​ Functional fitness
Curricular Focus:​ Manipulative ​(striking an object with the
Suggested time:​ 5-15 minutes ​(depending on which one) hand or with an implement)

Materials:​ None
Suggested time:​ 30-45 minutes ​(including ​échauffement​)
Description:​ Click on the links below to follow and
complete one of the fun kids or family workouts ​(séance
de fitness)​ below. Choose a different one each day this Materials:​ ​-1 large freezer ziploc bag or balloon
week. No Tech? No problem! Complete the exercises ​ -1 to 2 chairs
listed below. Do each exercise for 30 seconds with a 10
second rest in between. -1 to 2 spatulas, tape, 1 to 2 paper plates
-1 laundry basket
1.​Jumping Jacks:
2.​High knees:​ jog in place
3.​Squats: Description:​ ​Follow the links below for fun ways to practice striking
4.​Sit-up Reaches:​ regular sit-ups but when you come up-reach to the
and controlling an object with the hand or an implement. No tech? No
sky.
5.​Push-ups​: problem. Follow and engage in the activities below.
6.​Mountain Climbers:​ In push up position, bring one knee up at a
time to the chest. Alternate knees.
Activty 1​: Level 1:Blow up a balloon or blow up a large ziploc freezer
7.​Pop Cans:​ In squat position, shake like a pop can then explode into
a star jump (like opening a fizzing pop can). Repeat bag. Place a chair in the center of the room.
8. ​Toe Touches:​ ​Touch hand to opposite toe then reach to sky with
both arms and of tip toes. Alternate
Links:​ ​ Avengers Workout
​Star Wars Jedi Workout
​Harry Potter Hogwarts School Workout
​15 minute Fun Family Workout
​(this one is a little longer than the others)
- How many laps can you strike your balloon or ziploc bag in the air
(with your hand) around the chair in 1 minute.
-Level 2: Now try with your homemade badminton racket:(your paper
plate taped to your spatula-like last week’s pancake flipper challenge)
Activity 2:​ Create a throwing line aproximately 2-4 meters from your
laundry basket. Using your homemade badminton, how many points
can you score into your basket in 1 minute by contacting your sock ball
using the underhand serve technique (technique very similar to the
underhand throw)?
Link:​ ​Freezer Ziploc Bag Challenge
​Birdie In The Cage
Activity 3:​ Bean Bag Stunts Activity 4:​ Mental Health Also Matters!
Curricular Focus:​ Manipulative Skills Curricular Focus:​ Mental Wellness

Suggested time:​ 30-40 mins ​(​échauffement ​included) Suggested time:​ 30 mins

Materials:​ 1​bean bag (sock ball), 1 tennis or bouncy type ball Materials:​ ​None

Description:​ ​ Start with ​échauffement ​ from activity #1 Description:​ ​Parents!

Now more than ever, our mental health and our kids
Parents! mental health is very important! Along with our physical
Did you know that the skill of tracking and catching are the building well-being we must be conscious and tend to our and our
blocks for many different activities and sports. This is a fundamental childrenès mental wellness.
skill that kids should be practicing regularly. Throughout this week, Below are some age appropriate links that address the idea of mental
have your child practice the skill of tracking and catching in different wellness and mindfulness. I encourage students to return to these
ways. The link below shares ideas on ways to practice this important regularly and practice these exercises. No tech? No problem! Find a
skill. Be creative with the challenges/stunts you try and have fun! nice quiet place to relax. Sit or lay comfortably. Try focusing your
attention just your breathing.
Tips to Remember!  Focus on your breath in: your belly rising, the cool air entering your
   nostrils.
When catchin at a lower level:​ Our basket (fingers) point  Focus on your breath out: your belly lowering, breath out through your
down to the ground.  mouth.
  Only focus on your breath.
When catching at a higher level: ​Our basket (fingers) points  Try this breathing exercise regularly.
up to the sky.  
Link:​ ​Ever Active Schools: Bean Bag Stunts

Link:​ ​Cosmic Kids Zen Den: Mindfulness

​Cosmic Kids Zen Den: Be The Pond​:

​Mindfulness Meditation For Kids

Activity 5:​ La Marche Des Animaux Bonus Activity:​ ​Variety Is Also Good!
(Animal Walks)
Curricular Focus:​ Well-Being
Curricular Focus:​ ​Fundamental Movement Skills
​(habiletés motrice fondamentales) Suggested time:​ Minimum 30 mins
Suggested time:​ 30-45 mins
Materials:​ A variety of or no materials, depending on your
Materials:​ None choice of activity.

Description:​ ​Parents! Description:​ ​The bonus activity this week gives you the flexibility to
We talked about the importance of practicing “Fundamental Movement choose. Below are links to a variety of physical activity ideas to do at
Skills (FMS)” regularly as the building blocks for development. ​Animal home. You may choose from some of them or keep these in mind for
Walks ​are fun ways to support the development of these skills and future weeks ahead.
helps build muscle strength This week, students can practice different You may want to choose something else like going for a bike ride or a
animal walks. walk with the family, playing in the backyard, select from the list from
They can practice various animal walks around the house or the bottom “ Ideas without technology”. ​ What is most important is
apartment (​please not up/down stairs) ​or yard. Perhaps create a that you do something to get you moving and be active!
start and finish line and have ​Animal Walk Races, invent an animal
walk game. ​ ​Be creative in how you practice​! Below are links to Link:​ ​Confiner et s’amuser
demonstrate different animal walks along with a tag game called ​“Zoo
Animal Tag”​ you can play with your family​. ​No tech? No problem!
Below is a list of animal walks to try. Remember to be creative in ways
​Stay at home/Play at home
you will practice these Animal Walks!
​Best Indoor Games For Kids
La marche des animaux
1.) Frog Jumps / ​Sauts de grenouille ​11 Indoor and Outdoor Activities To Do At Home
2.) Crab Walk / ​la marche du crab
3.) Bear Walk / ​La marche de l’ours
4.) Alligator or Crocodile Crawl / ​ramper comme un crocodile
5.) Donkey kicks / ​coups de pied d’âne
6.) Inchworm / ​la chenille
7.) Kangaroo Jumps / ​Sauts de kangourou
8.) Gorilla Walk / ​La marche du gorille
9.) Flamingo hops / ​Sauts du flamant
10.)Duck Walk / ​ La marche du canard
 Link:​ ​Animal Walks

​Faire de la gym avec ses enfants

​ Zoo Animal Tag

Additional Activities without Technology:

1. Go for a 5 minute marathon power walk inside or outside, add in the 7 locomotor skills, lunges, squats during the time frame to

bring variety & break up the boredom

2. Quietly do stairs in your home, apartment or, noisily do stairs outdoors

3. Go for a walk with your family, take your pet dog or cat if you have one

4. Tapeball Games Find laundry basket(s) make a tape/sock ball of various sizes. Play tapeball hand hockey in a hallway, tapeball

basketball, tape volleyball, tape handball or tape raquet ball against a wall, over a homemade net.
​5.. Play Outside

6. Create a backyard obstacle course

6. Do some yard work for your parents!

7. Draw a Hop-Scotch outside - using chalk

8. Go for a Bike Ride, Scooter Ride, or Run (with parents permission).