The Best Parts of My Week! 4/23/12--4/27/12

Hi everyone,
     We had some wonderful special events this week and Fitness Frankie and Exercise Ernie were busy as well!

.....We started off the week with "Miss Kathleen"!  She brought a special Yoga program to North Park which was funded by a grade level grant from our generous PTA!   Miss Kathleen told us a story and then we acted out the story by doing Yoga poses!  "Mr. Zoobles" was back and Fitness Frankie and Exercise Ernie were in attendance as well!  The students and adults had a terrific time!

.....Early in the week I was putting up a bulletin board in the hallway which is a part of our upcoming Operation Healthy North Park event.  This event begins May 1st and it was great to see the interest that the bulletin board generated!

.....Our "PE People Project" continues to grow and this week I observed one student looking through all of the PE People on her grade level line to see if hers was there......it was!

.....At the conclusion of a kindergarten class, one of the students remarked:  "I want to have PE everyday!"

.....My student teacher wanted to show a badminton video to students in grades 3-5 to excite them about the sport.  We found a video of the 2011 World Badminton Championship and show some clips to the students.  They were so interested that you could have heard a pin drop!  It was an exciting match!

.....We have been celebrating National Poetry Month during April by listening to poems being read by various students and adults.  Our librarian organized this celebration and found a book of sports poems for us to read to our students.  It is wonderful to be able to collaborate!  Fitness Frankie wanted to get into the act too and I found a poem called "The Green Flag" by Joey Dille.  Fitness Frankie loves race cars and Healthy Highway so of course it was about race cars!  I read it for him on Friday morning and everyone else loved it too!

.....Fitness Frankie and Exercise Ernie had a new adventure this week!  They spent the week in the Health Office with our school nurse.  We called it "The Body Shop" to continue with our Healthy Highway theme and it was so much fun to see them in there all week!  Our school nurse had some terrific ideas about what to teach them and we had a terrific time taking pictures of their adventure!  A journal entry will be posted soon on their blog!  Thanks Mrs. J!

Thanks for reading about the "Best Parts of My Week!"

Visit the North Park PE website if you would like more information about the PE program at North Park!