• CCG: Demonstrate knowledge of a variety of motor skills
• CCG: Understand and participate in a variety of physical and recreational activities available in the school and community
• CCG: Understand and apply physical education vocabulary as it relates to movement and concepts
• CCG: Understand rules and strategies for a variety of physical activities
• Content Standard: Demonstrate motor skill competency in a variety of physical activities and motor skill proficiency in one physical activity
• Apply movement concepts and principles to the development of motor skills

  Note: A checked box (below) refers to skills that are covered this week.

Grade 3 Benchmarks: Expressive and Efficient Movement

• Demonstrate mature form of basic locomotor patterns: run, gallop, slide, horizontal jump, hop, leap, and skip, starting and stopping on command and in control
• Demonstrate critical elements in manipulative skills: throw, catch, kick and strike
• Balance, demonstrating momentary stillness, in symmetrical and asymmetrical shapes on a variety of body parts
• Demonstrate three different step patterns and combinations of movements into repeatable sequences

Grade 5 Benchmarks: Expressive and Efficient Movement

• Demonstrate the use of a foot dribble (R/L foot), hand dribble (R/L hand), strike, throw, catch, and volley with a partner
• Perform one dance or rhythmic activity to music
• Through feedback and practice, demonstrate improvement in performance of a new motor skillUse basic offensive and defensive roles in physical activities, or games or sports

Fitness for a Lifetime

• CCG:Demonstrate knowledge of a physically active lifestyle
• CCG: Understand the meaning of physical fitness and how personal fitness can be improved and maintained using a health-related fitness assessment as one tool for measuring
• Content Standard: Provide evidence of engaging in a physically active lifestyle
• Demonstrate ways to acheive and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical fitness.

Grade 3 Benchmarks: Fitness for a Lifetime

• Demonstrate ways to acheive and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical fitness.

Grade 5 Benchmarks: Fitness for a Lifetime

• Identify changes in his/her body before, during and after moderate to vigorous excercise (e.g., perspiration, increased heart and breathing rates)
• Identify and assess the health-related components of fitness

Self-Management and Social Behavior

• CCG:Understand appropriate and positive behavior management (social skills) and respect for all individual differences, including gender, ethnicity and physical ability during physical activity.
• CCG: Understand and apply safety in movement activities.
• CCG: Understand that history and culture influence games, sports, play, and dance.
• Content Standard: Demonstrate responsible behavior and respect for differences among people during physical activities.

Grade 3 Benchmarks: Self-Management and Social Behavior

• Identify rules, procedures, and etiquette in a specified physical activity.
• Identify positive ways to resolve conflict.

Grade 5 Benchmarks: Self-Management and Social Behavior

• Explain and demonstrate safety, rules, procedures and etiquette to be followed during participation in physical activites