Winter activities

We continued our winter activities leading up to break by filling our PE stockings with both healthy foods (oranges) and the occasional treat (M&M's). We also celebrated by giving the elves the day off and sending them to the trampoline park where we had to catch them in  a parachute.

Reindeer tag

We are getting ready for winter break by playing some of our winter games, such as Reindeer Tag.

Snow day activities

We had a "snow day" in PE where we did the PE version of snow day activities, such as ice skating, riding a skeleton sled, crawling through a snow tunnel, making snow angels, and being a driver and a rider on a snowmobile.

Rev your Bev

 

We celebrated Rev your Bev day at lunch.  This is a statewide promotion to raise awareness about the incredible health benefits you can see by making water your number one beverage of choice.  At lunch, all Crozet students had the chance to sample water infused with the flavors of blueberry, raspberry, and blackberry.  The water in the coolers and our cups even took on a pinkish/reddish color from all the fruit juices.

Ghostbusters

We had three different types of ghosts in the gym we were trying to capture in three different ways.

10 years of QuickStart Tennis at Crozet

Lynda Harrell (the tennis lady) came to visit our Knd, 1st, and 2nd graders to help them celebrate 10 years of QuickStart Tennis at our school. She talked to them about how tennis players show kindness.  Each student got a 10 year anniversary shirt and then got to play some tennis.

 

United Nations Day

We celebrated United Nations Day by representing one of the 15 countries on the UN Security Council for our Jog Around the World.  Then we played a game involving peacekeepers as that is one of the jobs the United Nations does.

Reptile Awareness Day

We celebrated Reptile Awareness Day by playing Crocodiles of Lake Crozet where students pretended they were crocodiles.  We also played Zookeeper and students got to choose what type of turtle or tortoise they wanted to be.  In the next round, students had to choose a type of lizard or snake to be.

Buddy PE

For Buddy PE Day, each upper grade classroom (3rd-5th) partnered up with a lower grade classroom (headstart-2nd). Each student was given one or two buddies from the other class and was able to spend a few minutes talking and finding out about their new buddy.  Then, with their buddy as their teammate, we played a game of Submarine.

Farmer day

As part of our celebration of National Farm to School month, PE classes celebrated National Farmer Day. Students did PE versions of milking cows, shearing sheep, rolling hay into bales, fixing fences, and fetching water for the animals on the farm.

Tennis day at Crozet

Our first graders have been working on tennis skills all year.  Today they received special instruction from some local

tennis coaches and then Miss Lynda from QuickStart tennis told the first graders that they got to keep the racquets they were practicing with.

Going for the gold

We celebrated St. Patrick's Day by trying to capture gold from the leprechauns in our gym.

Kid Heart Challenge

Crozet students raised over $ 7,700 for the American Heart Association during our Kid Heart Challenge Event.

Valentine's Day

We celebrated Valentine's Day by playing Rescue the Candy Hearts.

100th day

PE celebrated the 100th day of school by dropping 100 tennis balls from the balcony onto the gym floor. Each class was timed to see how long it took them to pick up all 100 tennis balls...one ball at a time. We then did 100 exercises.

Chinese New Year

We celebrated Chinese New Year and the Year of the Pig by using PE "chopsticks" and retrieving food from the PE food buffet. Some of our favorites were beef with broccoli and fortune cookies.

Groundhog Day

We celebrated Groundhog Day a little early when a giant groundhog hole appeared in the gym.

new mats

PE is very excited about our two new mats that can be used for curl-ups, tumbling, and a variety of PE games.  Thank you to our PTO for a grant that allowed PE to purchase the new mats.

hoop shoot

As part of our basketball unit, students had the choice to take part in a free throw shooting contest.  Each participant got 10 free throws.  They competed against other students in their gender and age group. 96 of our 196 third, fourth, and fifth graders chose to take a risk and compete. Thanks to the local Elks club for providing ribbons for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place finishers. Above is a picture of our ribbon winners.