You have to be mindful that some K students are coming to school for the first time learning their letters. My thought process for the little ones is to make it as user and kid friendly as possible. The plus side of the PDF though is that you can be more specific with activities (you will see in my 3-5 physical education virtual activities). And we know that isn’t always possible due to working conditions. With the PDF, the parents have to explain what their child should be doing.
The parents can just pull it up and the kids follow along. Sometimes the videos are easier for the families. And on Sunday’s we always route for the Detroit Lions. This is great, because if there are any activities the students liked they can revisit them at any time during the week. Once they pop up for the students, they stay there. Each post is scheduled to show up the day they are to complete it, that way they wont be confused. This allows the students or parents to enter my Google Classroom, and complete the exercise on screen during their virtual PE time. Some weeks I will post an exercise video for the students every day. So I set my Google classroom up two different ways. But as a PE teacher, we know we want our kids to be moving every day. Since I only go live on Google Meet with K-2 on Mondays, that means I only see Kindergarten once a week. Let me walk you through how I have set K up, and what we do weekly. There are so many virtual activities you can do for physical education in this grade. Kindergarten is my favorite class to teach right now. My kids will see me on Google Meet or go into my Google Classroom every day for 12 weeks with no confusion.įor a deeper look into my day to day, you can check out my Teaching Update post here! Virtual Physical Education Activities for Kindergarten: This way they don’t have to constantly remember what special they have each day.
It makes it so much easier on the kids and parents at home. Once the trimester ends, my 9 classes move on to Art or Technology and I will gain one of their 9 classes. What it now looks like is I teach 9 different classes a week, but only once. Normally I would teach 23 DIFFERENT classes a week, and 45 classes total per week, but luckily for virtual physical education and the other specials my school made some changes to the schedule. I am currently in a K-8 school with three separate classes per grade level.
I will be honest…I love virtual teaching, but it’s not for everyone. I have a great system down, and use the resources other people have worked so hard to create in order make OUR teaching lives easier. USE THEM! You might have to stray from your normal curriculm and that’s okay! It’s not normal school! Adapt to your environment and make the best out of the circumstances you’re in.įor me personally, I feel like I am killing the virtual teaching game. Remote learning doesn’t have to be this overly hard task given to teachers to navigate alone. I feel like I am able to get more cross curricular content into my students PE class without them even realizing. I have been seeing a lot of questions or resources for how to teach the younger kids remotely. Virtual physical education activities seem to be the hot topic for the online school teachers right now.