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Fit For Life III

School:: Holly Hill School
Subject:: Health/P.E.
Teacher:: Kathleen Roam
: Alysia Ruddy
Students Impacted:: 650
Grade:: Pre K - 5
Date:: September 10, 2024

50% Funded

Only $500.00 Needed

Impact to My Classroom

# of Students Impacted: 650

Thank you so much for funding this grant. This grant allowed us to expose students to new stations in P.E. The volleyball station provided students with many benefits such as movement patterns, balance & strength, body control, hand and eye coordination, gross motor skills, and learning to work together as a team. Playing volleyball encouraged students to have cooperation, better communication, and helped them develop social skills. This station is very popular and used often.

The basketball station is also very popular. Older students love to get a team going and play a basketball game. This helped them strengthen cardio while improving agility and coordination. And building teamwork skills. The kids loved the smaller basketballs. They were perfect for smaller hands. Our younger students were able to work on improving their dribbling, passing, and shooting skills (shooting into a large trashcan for K – 1 and lowering our basketball goals help them have a realistic target). The pumps worked out well and are used on a regular bases to keep our balls inflated.

The final station was four squares. Playing four square offered various benefits, including improving hand-eye coordination, balance, agility, strategic thinking, while also promoting social interaction and fun. Kids loved to play different kinds of four-square games such as Jedi Ball (hit the ball with your eyes closed) and Kangaroo Ball (hit the ball and jump at the same time). We have several four-square areas that we painted so there could be several games going at once.

We truly appreciate your support of this grant. The new equipment promoted physical fitness and well-being among our students. This grant made a positive impact on our students’ fitness and social emotional wellbeing. Thank you again!

Original Grant Overview

Goal

The goal of this grant is to get kids active during physical education class while meeting our fitness components and physical education standards. The physical fitness components addressed in this grant include cardiorespiratory endurance and muscular strength, and muscular endurance. The standards focused on include movement competency (locomotor skills), lifetime fitness, and responsible behaviors. Students will also improve their physical ability and develop teamwork skills while working with their peers.

What will be done with my students

Students will be guided in stations and will develop various skills improving their muscular strength and endurance while focusing on movement competency, lifetime fitness, and responsible behavior standards. Before participating in each station, students will learn about cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength, and muscular endurance via posters, class discussions (Youtube Brain Bites Clips), and/or PowerPoint slides. Students will also work cooperatively with peers during stations exhibiting personal and social behavior that respects self and others.
1. Volleyball Station will provide students with the following fitness components: increase cardio, strengthen core and lower and upper body muscles, and improve balance. Students will learn how to serve and volley over the net. Improve their hand eye coordination, balance, and work as a team in a volleyball games such as Beach Ball Hot Potato. Students will work together to keep the beach ball from touching the floor. As soon as a child catches the ball they immediately throw it back over like a hot potato. Students in grades 4 and 5 will play a volley game with 6 students on a team. We have 2 sets of standards so one class could play with 4 teams. The winning teams can play each other. Students will be taught the volley ball lingo such as (serve, pass or bump, hit, double hit, dink or tip, spike, kill, roof) etc.
2. Basketball Station will strengthen cardio while improving agility and coordination. Students will build teamwork skills. Students will improve their dribbling, passing, and shooting skills. After working on the skills, students will perform in a basketball game utilizing the skills learned.
3. Four Square Station will improve hand-eye coordination, concentration, physical coordination of motor skills such as flexibility, balance, agility to play. There are two common objectives. The first is to have the most points when the game ends, where 1 point is awarded to the person in square 4 (the server) each turn. The second is to be the last player who hasn't been eliminated by obtaining a predetermined number of "outs".
PE.K-2.M.1.1 –Students will demonstrate locomotor and non-locomotor skills with proficiency in a variety of activity settings.
PE.3-5.M.1.1 – Students will apply locomotor and non-locomotor skills in a variety of settings while applying the appropriate movement concept as the situation demands.
PE.3-5.M.1.12 – Students will demonstrate competency in many and proficiency in a few movement forms from a variety of categories (locomotor, non-locomotor, manipulative and non-manipulative.
PE.K-5.L.4.1 – Students will Identify the location of muscles that help the body perform specific physical activities.
PE.K-5.L.3.1 – Students will participate in regular physical activity and be able to identify activities that provide moderate exercise.
PE.K-5.R. 6.1 Students will identify physical activities that are enjoyable and value physical activities for health, enjoyment, challenge, and/or social interaction.
PE.3-5.L.4.1. Students will describe how muscular strength and endurance enhances performance in physical activities.

Benefits to my students

Benefits to our students include having physically literate individuals who have the knowledge, skill, and confidence to enjoy a lifetime of healthful physical activity. Students will be able to describe the difference between cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength, and muscular endurance. Cardiorespiratory endurance is the ability of the heart and lungs to deliver oxygen to working muscles during continuous physical activity. Muscular strength is the amount of force a muscle can exert against a resistance. Muscular endurance is the ability to use voluntary muscles repeatedly without tiring. Also, students will learn the skills necessary to participate in a variety of physical activities and their contributions to a healthy lifestyle. Being exposed to different sports may encourage students to get active in future grades and beyond. Physical fitness is more important now than ever before due to our diet and sedentary lifestyle.

Budget Narrative

The items requested will allow students to participate in the various stations. We need new volleyball nets to use with our 2 sets of roll away standards (poles). We also need volley balls, beach balls or large playground balls for younger students, basketballs, four square balls, and an air pump. We have painted several 4 square areas on our court for students to play 4 square.

Items

#	Item	Cost
1	1-2 good quality volley ball nets	$600.00
2	volleyballs	$80.00
3	Beach balls or playground balls	$25.00
4	basketballs	$100.00
5	Air pump	$120.00
6	Four square balls	$75.00
	Total:	$1,000.00