Skill Development: Gymnastics is a fantastic sport to teach students about the power of body control. Concepts of symmetry, center of balance, base of support and balance strategies will come to life as students manipulate their bodies into new positions and depend on their muscular strength and endurance to support themselves. On the heels of a
successful summer Olympics for the US in gymnastics, I am excited to allow students to really develop their tumbling, rotation, traveling and static balance. Students will be strengthening their core, learning leg positions such as pike and straddle, performing sequences of front rolls, backwards rolls, and cartwheels. |
UNIT WORD WALL:
Flexibility: easily bent or shaped Tumbling: rolls and somersaults Center of Gravity: the body part where all the body weight is concentrated or evenly distributed. |
P.E. Games and Activities:
Tumbling Circuit: Stations will be as follows: 1. Jumping matts; students practice their pike and straddle jumps 2. Balance beam; students challenge themselves by doing plies, turns, walking on tip toes, walking backwards and sideways, leg raises 3. Cartwheel mat 4. Tumbling Mat; choice of forward roll, backward roll, log roll, shoulder roll, straddle or pike roll 5. Headstand or handstand against the wall |