Swimming (April 23rd – 1st June)
Kindergarten swimming focuses on completing level 1 of the American Red Cross swim program by the end of the school year. We will focus on water safety, being comfortable in the water and basic locomotion on the water.
Students will be able to (by the end of the school year):
- submerge face under water
- float on their front independently
- float on their back with support
- glide and kick on their front independently
- glide and kick on their back with support
- use arms in basic human stroke
- use a life jacket correctly
- recite pool safety rules
KG students should be able to change their clothes independently. Please ensure that they wear easy to take off and put on clothing and shoes, sneakers with laces are too difficult for them to tie quickly. Please remember no flip flops are allowed on campus.
Project Adventure and Speed Stacking (March 12 - April 13)
Project Adventure is a cooperative skills and strength building unit in which students will be asked to try unfamiliar or challenging activities, and work together in large and small groups to achieve one specific goal.
Students will:
- Practice climbing skills on ropes and multi-stage ladders
- Practice swinging skills on ropes and low bars
- Build upper body strength by pulling up on ropes and other vertical equipment
- Work cooperatively with peers to solve simple problems and puzzles
Speed Stacking - This activity requires a great deal of cross-brain involvement and is extremely helpful with fine motor patterns, eye-hand coordination and sequencing. With continued practice, students will eventually increase their ambidexterity, speed and concentration, strengthening the pathways in the brain that are also needed in math ability. The goal of this unit is for students to be able to perform the sequence, with reasonable speed and accuracy on a consistent basis. Lessons involve a variety of games and activities that involve stacking at various stages and regularly incorporate fitness.
Students will:
- Learn to “walk” a 3-stack of cups
- Learn to “upstack” and “downstack” a basic 3 pattern
- Learn to “upstack” and “downstack” a basic 3-3 pattern
- Explore upstacking and downstacking of a 6 pattern
- Play fitness games such as “Builders and Bulldozers” that have Speed Stacking as their foundation.
Gymnastics in KG centres around body control in space, development of fundamental movement skills and balancing. Rotating the body around its own axis is a developmental skill which we explore through a variety of rolls that demand varying degrees of body control. Body control is also explored during the development of skipping, galloping and other movements, as well as individual, partner and group balancing activities.
Fitness, Games & Track (Jan 18 – Feb 2)
Students will focus on a variety of fitness games that encourage regular and fun physical activity. They will also start to learn to pace themselves to be able to jog a prescribed distance comfortably without walking. Kg will also be introduced to track and field. By the end of the unit students will:
- Work cooperatively with a group when playing games
- Be able to maintain a slow, but steady, jogging pace over a distance of ½ mile
- Recognize a difference in breathing and heart rate before, during and after physical activity
- Maintain an appropriate level of continuous physical activity
- Successfully run a shuttle relay race
- Take off in to the long jump pit with one foot and land in the long jump pit on two
Students will focus on a variety of ball and object manipulation skills. They will work in stations and small groups to increase individual practice on throwing and catching, kicking and striking, ball control and object manipulation. Developing good hand-eye and foot-eye coordination is central to improving ball skills and by the end of the unit students should demonstrate a basic level of skill in:
- Throwing underhand and overhand
- Catching with two hands or receiving an object
- Throwing and catching with a short-handled implement
- Kicking at a stationary target or to a person
- Throwing at stationary target or to a person
- Striking with a long-handled implement
Student will focus on a variety of ball and object manipulation skills. They will work in stations and small groups to increase individual practice on throwing and catching, kicking and striking, ball control and object manipulation. Developing good hand-eye and foot-eye coordination is central to improving ball skills and by the end of the unit students should demonstrate a basic level of skill in:
· Throwing underhand and overhand
· Catching with two hands or receiving an object
· Throwing and catching with a short-handled implement
· Kicking at a stationary target or to a person
· Throwing at stationary target or to a person
· Striking with a long-handled implement
Swimming (17th August – 6th October)
KGS and KGC will swim on a Tuesday.
Kindergarten swimming focuses on completing level 1 of the American Red Cross swim program by the end of the school year. We will focus on water safety, being comfortable in the water and basic locomotion on the water.
Students will be able to (by the end of the school year):
- submerge face under water
- float on their front independently
- float on their back with support
- glide and kick on their front independently
- glide and kick on their back with support
- use arms in basic front crawl stroke
- use arms in basic back finning or crawl stroke
- use a life jacket correctly
- recite pool safety rules
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