Health and Physical Education

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Our Faculty

Allison Abbott

Chris Gilstrap

Hunter Jackson

Tracy Powell

Tommy Sanders

Freddie Vazquez

 

Our main objective is to get your child excited about physical activity and to encourage them to pursue lifelong fitness. We want to motivate students to persevere and embrace physical activity. Our program is designed to get kids active away from school at their home. Extend physical education to include regular exercise in the home, and present proper sleeping, eating and exercise habits as part of a larger picture of personal wellbeing.

  • Talk regularly about the relationship of exercise to health, productivity, even economics.
  • Discuss various health problems that can be eliminated or minimized by regular exercises or stretching.
  • Students invent their own exercises, focusing on certain parts of the body or muscle groups, or...
  • Pick from existing exercises already used in class.
  • Students can teach exercises to adults at home.
  • Have kids figure out an exercise regimen they can undertake at home.
  • Include stretching exercises that may be done as part of TV watching
  • Children can talk with their parents about their physical activity as children, and why they do or don't exercise now.
  • Students can keep a chart of exercises performed nightly by themselves and their parents.
  • Write about results of their teaching experience.
  • Can have adults help them check and record their heart rate before and after exercise.


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