State Curriculum - Physical Education

 
Grade 1
Standard 1.0 Skillfulness: Students will demonstrate the ability to enhance their performance of a variety of physical skills by developing fundamental movement skills, creating original skill combinations, combining skills effectively in skill themes, and applying skills.
A. Fundamental Movement
1. Show fundamental movement skills.
a. Demonstrate locomotor skills including walking, jogging, running, galloping, jumping, sliding, hopping, skipping, and leaping.
b. Exhibit general spatial awareness and self-space awareness, using a variety of directions, levels, and pathways.
c. Demonstrate the combination of non-locomotor and locomotor skills in coordinated movement patterns.
d. Demonstrate proper techniques of take-offs and landings.
e. Identify and perform movement skills of chasing and fleeing.
B. Creative Movement
1. Show creative movement.
a. Perform a variety of movements using the body to interpret a poem, story, or song.
b. Move the body symmetrically and asymmetrically while maintaining balance in a stationary position.
C. Skill Themes
1. Show skill themes.
a. Demonstrate catching a self-tossed lightweight object such as: a scarf or a balloon.
b. Use and demonstrate opposition with hand/foot when using underhand tosses and overhand throws.
c. Demonstrate striking objects with various body parts and short handled implements.
d. Exhibit maintaining balance on a base of support while changing body shapes.
e. Display transferring weight from feet to hand such as: a frog jump or cartwheel.
f. Demonstrate a variety of tumbling experiences.
 

 

May 27, 2009