PE_Descriptions

Descriptions:

6TH GRADE P.E.

Sixth grade P.E. students at Alki Middle School are not required to change their clothes. They are new to the middle school experience, so they participate in the clothes they wear to school. Sixth grade students also have P.E. on even or odd calendar days. It is important to remember which day your student has P.E. so he/she doesn't wear dress shoes or a dress.

The units we teach are:

~Football

~Soccer

~Basketball

~Volleyball

~Gymnastics

~Wrestling (not co-ed)

~Track

~Softball

~Presidential Physical Fitness Testing

(sit-ups, sit/reach, flexed arm hang, shuttle run, timed mile run)

We are excited to include some new indoor units this year:

~Badminton

~Pickleball

~Floor Hockey

Students participate in warm up exercises at the start of each class that include jumping jacks, stretches, crunches (half sit-ups) and push-ups. The students also perform 5 down and back jogging laps in the gym as part of their warm up.

Once a week students will have Conditioning Day. This includes a minimum of 8 laps on the track when the weather is nice and jogging around the gym inside when the weather turns bad.

On Fridays we have Fun Friday and students get to choose what activity they want to

participate in.

During each unit we teach lead-up skills. Throwing, kicking, ball handling, and general skills required to perform the activity are all taught. Students are not graded on how well they perform the skill, but if they participate and do the best they possibly can. Students are graded on participation, sportsmanship, attitude, effort, preparedness, cooperation, attentiveness, following rules, being on time, and improvement.

7th and 8th GRADE P.E. CLASSES

Seventh and eighth grade students are required to change their clothes for P.E. They are issued a lock and assigned a locker to lock up their belongings. The students are given 5 minutes and the beginning and end of the period to change. They then go out to the gym and sit in their roll lines.