Newfield Elementary School - Physical Education & Health - GRADES 1 & 2

Dear First and Second Grade Families,

Please make sure your child is choosing healthy foods and eating a rainbow of colors. Remember, give fruits or vegetables per day, 60 minutes of exercise per day, and water is the best beverage. Get plenty of rest, and wash your hands with soap and water to keep your body healthy.

Please have your child choose three of the following activities to complete as their P.E. requirement on a weekly basis. Remember to wear sneakers that zip, tie or Velcro when exercising. Please help your child to find a safe space in your home to perform these exercises. Try checking your heart rate before, during and after each activity. Check your heart rate by placing a hand over your heart. Use the other hands to show how fast your heart is beating. Listen to your body, take breaks, and drinks lots of water.

• Jog in place. Challenge a family member in your home to see who can jog the longest. Remember to keep a good pace while you jog in place, so that you can sustain your jog and keep good stamina. 
• Challenge yourself by performing the "fire feet" exercise (running in place as fast as you can, while maintaining high knees).
• Practice our sit & reach stretch (hug one knee ...up and down 1, up and down 2, up and down hold). Hold for 20 seconds. Then switch legs. Remember to keep your leg straight and toe pointed up at the ceiling.
• Practice your curl-ups (sitting all the way up, without using your elbows to help you sit up).
• Practice your ABC push-ups (hands directly under your shoulders, feet together, touching your opposite shoulder without swaying your body side to side).
• Practice wall push-ups (start at a wall with your hands directly under your shoulders, feet together, straight body and straight elbows. The only part of your body that moves are your elbows).
• Practice your push-ups. Keep your back straight as you try to bend your elbows only to move your body up and down.
• Practice your planking. Challenge your grown up for family member in your home to a planking contest (fist-fist-elbow-elbow-toes. Remember to keep your stomach up and bottom down). Stop if you feel your body is not straight.
• If you have a jump rope at home, practice jumping rope in good personal space. If you don't have a jump rope, do invisible jump rope. Challenge yourself and see how long you can jump without stopping. If you have a jump rope at home, you can also make a line or a circle shape with your jump rope on the ground. If you have a large hula hoop at home, you can use a hula hoop the same as a jump rope (holding the hula hoop with tow hands at the top, swinging it over your body and jumping as it moves toward the ground). Remember the jumping cues we have learned: straight body (like a lollipop), low jumps, and soft landing (like you're landing on a cloud).
• If you have a soft ball at your home, and your grown up allows it, have a catch with a family member within your home. The person who throws the ball has to name a food. The person who catches it has to say if that food is healthy or unhealthy. You get one point for every catch you make and one point for every food you guess correctly (healthy or unhealthy).
• Put some music on and dance. Play freeze dance with a family member in your home.
• If you have access to the internet, go to Go Noodle and challenge yourself to some dances.

Looking forward to seeing everyone again soon!

-Mrs. Spinner & Mrs. Iacono