AMPeD Monthly

PE Journeys

• Unit 2 - Cooperative Activities & Parachute (week 2/2)

• Skills Taught - Practice and improve communication skills (speaking clearly, identifying problems, sequencing steps or actions to take, listening, etc.). Practice and develop positive interpersonal skills in problem-solving activities (patience, accepting different ideas, resolving differences of opinion).

• Unit 3 - Fundamental Movement Concepts - Locomotor/Nonlocomotor & Manipulative (2 Weeks)

• Develop movement skills and apply a movement vocabulary. Explore creative and expressive movement.

• My PE Journey Check Point #1

• Monitor and understand their individual fitness program. Set individual activity goals and strive to achieve them.

• Unit 4 - Manipulative Skills - Throwing & Catching (3 Weeks)

• Practice and improve fundamental throwing and catching skills. Actively participate in throwing and catching activities, and challenges to utilize learned skills, and develop physical fitness.

Health Ed Journeys

• K-2

• Unit 1 - Let’s Go Catch

• Lesson 2 - Every Journey Needs a Guide

• Who are trusted people you can talk to about your health?

• Lesson 3 - Catch MVP Healthy Habits

• Demonstrate personal hygiene and health habits such as hand washing, oral hygiene, and getting enough sleep.

• Lesson 4 - Health Check Ups

• Explain a few of the different types of healthcare professionals and describe the services they provide such as medical check-ups, dental exams, and vision and hearing screening.

• 3-5

• Lesson 2 - Healthy Me

• Model strategies for maintaining personal hygiene and health habits.

• Lesson 3 - Health Options

• Demonstrate the importance of health information and how to seek assistance in making decisions about health.

• Lesson 4 - Dealing with Illness

• Role play how to manage common minor illnesses such as colds and skin infections. Demonstrate the difference between communicable and noncommunicable illnesses.

Unit 1 – Musical Foundations

• K-2

• Identify and differentiate between the five voices and identify adult and children's singing voices.

• Identify and describe sounds from different instrument families.

• Identify steady beat and differentiate between unison and ensemble singing.

• Use musical vocabulary to describe tempo and dynamics.

• Sing, move, and perform music independently and with others.

• Explore locomotor and non-locomotor movement through a variety of musical selections.

• Demonstrate appropriate audience and performance behaviors.

• 3-5

• Categorize and explain musical sounds from a variety of voices, instruments, and cultures.

• Use appropriate musical vocabulary to describe rhythm, melody, timbre, form, tempo, dynamics, articulation, and other musical elements.

• Describe specific musical events and performances using appropriate vocabulary.

• Develop listening and performance skills through a variety of musical experiences.

• Demonstrate appropriate audience etiquette.

Unit 2 – Rhythm

• K-2

• Identify, read, write, reproduce, and perform rhythmic patterns using known rhythms and standard notation.

• Explore quarter notes, paired eighth notes, quarter rests, half notes, half rests, and sixteenth notes.

• Perform beat and rhythm partwork and rhythmic ostinati using voices, body percussion, and classroom instruments.

• Create and improvise short rhythmic patterns and phrases.

• Sing and play classroom instruments independently and with a group.

• 3-5

• Read, write, reproduce, and perform increasingly complex rhythmic patterns using standard notation.

• Explore sixteenth-note combinations, syncopation, dotted rhythms, whole notes and rests, and simple and compound meter.

• Create rhythmic phrases through improvisation and composition.

• Recognize and use appropriate rhythm terminology.

• Perform rhythms accurately while interpreting tempo, dynamics, and articulation markings.