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5 Ways to Celebrate PE & Sport Week in Your School … All Year Long!

SHAPE America

Help ALL Kids Develop Fundamental and Foundational Motor Skills To expand “Motor Skills Monday” beyond National PE & Sport week, think of ways to include activities, games and creative opportunities to increase motor skill ability throughout the year. Be creative and include them in games and movement challenges.

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How to ‘Spring’ Into Physical Activity During National PE & Sport Week

SHAPE America

Make new friends through movement. Show off your creativity side: Revise rules from old games and change them to new and different rules to fit the new game. He is currently the coordinator of Physical Education and Health Education for Manassas City Public School in Manassas, VA. Spoiler alert!

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Spooky Fun and Fitness: Why Halloween Games Are a Treat for PE Lessons

Physical Education Ideas

It adds a new layer of excitement to lessons, keeping students engaged, fostering creativity, and boosting morale. By integrating games like "Witches Hat Tag" and "Night of the Living Zombie Tag" (both found in the Night of the Active Dead resource ), you’ll channel their Halloween excitement into purposeful movement.

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Power-Up Rhythm and Timing in Physical Education Activities

Gopher Sport

Recent evidence suggests that adding developmentally appropriate cognitive demands to patterned movement stimulates executive function and the precursor skills to reading and math ( Paschen et al., This cross-modal integration enhances the brain’s ability to process the coordinate information from different sensory channels.

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End of the Year Chaos Got Ya Juggling? Reach for Some Scarves!

Gopher Sport

This piece of equipment is highly inclusive, improves hand-eye coordination, can be stimulating or calming for students, and instills a growth mindset through student autonomy. Creativity begins to flow as the skillset (and the brain) grows!!! Balancing: Work on balance and coordination by balancing a scarf of different body parts.

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Egg-citing Easter Games for a Hoppin' Good PE Class!

Physical Education Ideas

From hopping like bunnies to rolling eggs, these activities improve cardiovascular health, coordination, and agility. Enhances Motor Skills: From balancing eggs on spoons to hopping in bunny poses, Easter games help develop gross motor skills, balance, hand-eye coordination, and spatial awareness.

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THE PITFALLS OF 'MORE, YOUNGER' MINDSET Why Starting Kids Too Early and Pushing Them Too Hard Can Backfire in Youth Sports

Better Coaching

Physical Growth and Maturation From infancy to adolescence, children undergo substantial changes in skeletal structure, muscular strength, cardiorespiratory capacity, and coordination. Cross-Training: Encourage children to engage in multiple sports, thereby distributing repetitive stresses across different muscle groups and movement patterns.

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