Charlotte Latin’s Lower School physical education program helps students start understanding the physical skills necessary to ensure the proper development of their mind, body and spirit. Enjoyment, cooperation, and sportsmanship are stressed at all grade levels.
The TK-3 curriculum consists of movement exploration and locomotor and non-locomotor skills mixed with play activities. The emphasis is on body control, coordination, cooperative play as well as fitness. Lead-up games and manipulative skills are also a focus in second and third grade. Fourth and fifth graders continue to improve their motor patterns, sports skills and personal fitness levels during our sports units.
• Locomotor Movements: walk, power walk, jog, skip, gallop, slide, leap, hop, crawl, climb and jump.
• Non-Locomotor Movements: bend, stretch, twist, turn, fall, and curl
• Motor Skills: balance, coordination, agility, flexibility, speed and strength.
• Manipulative Activities: kick, bounce, roll, strike, stop, catch, and throw.
• Spatial Awareness: Following/changing directions and pathways.
• Creative Expression: body awareness as it relates to motor development. Work with peers to enhance creative abilities.
• Sportsmanship and Fair Play: “Honor Above All”, “When in doubt, take yourself out.”
• Games of Low Organization: Opportunity and exposure.
• Locomotor movements: walk, jog, sprint, gallop, skip, sliding, climbing, relays
• Manipulatives: throw, catch, kick, roll, bounce, strike
• Body control and spatial awareness
• Musical fitness jogs: plyometrics, movement patterns
• Personal fitness: Musical jogs and fitness challenge introduction
• Tag and dodge games: movement, manipulative, fitness, sportsmanship
• Sportsmanship: “honor above all” and “when in doubt, take yourself out”
• Lead-up sports and skills: soccer, volleyball, bowling, swimming, whiffle ball, and track
• Locomotor Movements: walk, jog, skip, gallop, climb, hop, leap.
• Manipulative Activities: throw, catch, kick, roll, bounce, stride.
• Spatial Awareness
• Body Control
• Games of Low Organization
• Lead-up and Modified Sports and Skills: soccer, volleyball, swimming, bowling, whiffle ball.
• Sportsmanship: “Honor Above All”, referee yourself, take yourself out.
• Personal fitness: strength, speed, agility, power, aerobic endurance
• Team tactics and sports rules: soccer, four square, ultimate, volleyball, floor hockey, flag football
• Skills: manipulative, movement patterns, sport specific skills
• Sportsmanship, kindness and fun: lead-up sports activities, cooperative large group games