I’d like to welcome back our Pathfinder School
students and families to the 2014-2015 school year. I have a lot of fun units
planned in Adaptive PE, and our students are already enjoying our
activities. Units we’ll cover include
ones we enjoyed last year, such as obstacle courses, swimming, and bowling. I also have prepared some new units,
including gaga ball, softball, yoga, and we hope to participate in Hoops for Heart. Our physical education program will be collaborating
with our pre-vocational program, so students may use their PE knowledge to
develop future career skills.
Our first unit this fall is soccer, which is loved
by all students at Pathfinder School because they get to go out on Grant’s
Field, try new challenges, and score goals. Our younger students are learning
basic skills (kicking, passing, trapping, and throw-ins)while the older students
are learning competitive skills (offense, defense, scoring a goal, etc).
During my classes we took the phrase “Score a Goal”
to the next level by reading “The BerenstainBears Get Their Kicks” by Stan and
Jan Berenstain. This story demonstrates how Sister and Brother Bear set goals
to join soccer teams and work hard to meet their goals. After reading and
discussing the story, our students were able to come up with their own PE goals
for this year, shown below:
Next week will conclude our third week of our soccer
unit. Our residential students who
participate in Special Olympics Soccer will continue practicing soccer skills during
their recreation time. But back in school we will be running bases, throwing,
scoring runs and catching pop flies, all to coincide with the Major League
Baseball Playoffs.
Keep Active,
Miss Shirey
