Creating A Word Wall In PE

To go along with our writing in PE we have installed a white board and have begun making a word wall.

Using The 6+1 Writing Strategy In PE

For the past 2 weeks we have introduced a TAP writing strategy in PE that helps the students to understand about writing stories about their memories and experiences. In their journals they have been writing about the daily exercise regimen. All the sentences are relevant to the topic of their exercises. This week we had the students write about their favorite activity.. It could be from PE or somewhere else. We checked to see if the story stayed on topic and that all sentences were relevant and supported the main idea.

Making a Sundial Using a Basketball Goal

We have been discussing how time is used to measure in PE. To give the students a sense of how time can be measured using the sun we constructed a sundial using a basketball goal. Every hour we traced the shadow and labeled the mark with the hour. As we were making our marks we discussed that the marks would make 180 degrees. We discussed the pros and cons of using a sundial. We discussed how to make the sundial more effective. We also discussed how the sun moves across the sky in different seasons.