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Win a Let’s Move in School Skillastics® Activity Kit!
May 12th, 2012 7:10 am UTC | Posted in Afterschool, News, Physical Education, The Skillastics Blog
What do your student’s think about Skillastics®? Post a student’s comment or comment’s here before May 25, 2012. You name will be automatically included in a drawing to win a Let’s Move in School Skillastics® Activity Kit. The winner will be announced on Monday, May 28, 2012.
Skillastics® Enjoyed at Field Day!
May 4th, 2012 11:41 am UTC | Posted in Afterschool, Fitness, News, Physical Education, The Skillastics Blog
In honor of National Physical Education Week, Field Days all across America are happening with great success. One particular school – Lively Elementary in Irving, TX decided to REALLY go all out for their field day! All the children received t-shirts that stated; “Taking Bored Board Games to Another Level“, and introduced many fun, exciting “board” [...]
Now Available: Skillastics® / Peaceful Playgrounds Workshop
April 30th, 2012 10:04 am UTC | Posted in Afterschool, News, Physical Education, The Skillastics Blog
Founders Sandy Spin Slade and Dr. Melinda Bossenmeyer from Skillastics® and Peaceful Playgrounds respectively, and with a special session from the USTA, will present program overviews, philosophy, research and general hands on activities for: Skillastics® Activity Kits (Basketball, Volleyball, Soccer, Tennis, Fitness, Fitness Xtreme, Character is Cool, Halfpint and AAHPERD endorsed; “Let’s Move in School [...]
Developmentally Appropriate Skills
April 30th, 2012 9:29 am UTC | Posted in Afterschool, Fitness, Physical Education, The Skillastics Blog, Tips
Fun, joy of movement, positive learning environment. What comes to mind when you read those words? For me, it’s what I tried to do each day in my teaching. But for the purpose of this article, it’s back to watching 5 year old children learning how to play basketball, and now soccer. After a little [...]
Skillastics® Grouping Strategies
April 30th, 2012 9:23 am UTC | Posted in Afterschool, Park and Recreation, Physical Education, The Skillastics Blog
In order to get students organized quickly to play Skillastics®, try some of these “grouping” strategies: As you call the colors of the six teams, have students go to the color that is most obvious on their shirt. Call birthday months and send each month to a spot for their team. Call out favorite fruits [...]
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Skillastics® gets all the students so pumped to get active. They come in and see it laid out on the floor as the warm up activity and they get so excited! Before they know it they are moving and getting sweaty! They enjoy it so much that I got Sandy Spin Slade, Inc. permission to inlarge the activities and made them into poster size images and use them for our warm up when we do not have the Skillastics® game that we borrowed from another school. It is so much fun to see every student active no matter what their ability is. I love it! Thank you!