Highlands Physical Education
Mrs. Mickschl's PE Classes
What's been Happening in PE?
As you may or may not know, I have been working part-time this fall. I am lucky to be able to stay home with my daughters 2 days a week! Tanya Sletten, a former Edina graduate, is my long-term substitute; Tanya will be here until winter vacation. After winter break I will be returning to Highlands full-time.
Recent units in Physical Education have included: fitness testing, fitness stations, holiday themed stations, and gymnastics/tumbling. Interested in learning more about your child's physical education experiences? See below!
- Promotes athleticism - this is a sport!
- Polishes fine motor skills - playing most musical instruments will train a person's fine motor skills but hardly any sport can claim that. With the need to feel the cups with your fingertips when you up-stack and down-stack at F1 speed, Sport-Stacking certainly tests and builds your fine motor skills.
- Improves hand-eye coordination/accuracy
- Promotes ambidexterity/bilateral proficiency - the property of being equally skillful with each hand. Stackers are required to stack with both hands.
- Trains quickness/reflexes - besides the need to stack as fast as possible, stackers also need to react to falling cups, or to situations when they don't lift the number of cups they intend to while up-stacking.
- Trains concentration and sharpness of the brain - Sport-Stacking is about speed and precision. The stacker has to be fully focused on brain and hands coordination, especially when there is a loud crowd of spectators cheering you on!
- Trains space management - Sport-Stacking prompts the stacker to think about space management when stacking in a constrained space.
- Promotes team building
- Encourages sportsmanship - students shake hands before/after each challenge and complete the stack even if the race is lost.
- Trains handling of competition pressure - students need confidence and concentration to handle the intense excitement of cup-stacking competition.
- Provides sense of achievement - Sport-Stacking is easy to pick up, and with practice, vast personal improvement can easily be achieved over a short period of time.
- Encourages creativity and imagination - students can be creative by planning their own stacks and relay races.
- Enjoy hours of FUN FUN FUN! - When stacking alone or with friends, Sport-Stacking provide hours of intense excitement and thrill, trying to beat personal time as well as beating the others to complete The Cycle!
Fun in Physical Education
Sport Stacking in PE
Tumbling/Gymnastics
Dance Dance Revolution, Push-Up Test, Fitness Games, Obstacle Course and much more!!!
Upcoming units include: fitness games/activities, obstacle course and much, much more!!
Julie Mickschl
Email: Julie.Mickschl@edinaschools.org
Website: https://sites.google.com/a/apps.edina.k12.mn.us/highlands-pe/
Location: 5505 Doncaster Way, Minneapolis, MN, United States
Phone: 9528484530
Highlands Sport Stacking Club
If your child/children are signed up for the club, please try to get them to the gym at 8:30 am so that we can start as soon as possible! Again, backpacks and winter gear need to be dropped off at lockers/cubbies...we need every inch of space in the gym!
Remaining Session Dates:
Thursday, November 13
Thursday, November 20 (sport stacking and DDR!)
Tuesday, December 2 (sport stacking and OBSTACLE COURSE!!)
Wednesday, December 3 (sport stacking and OBSTACLE COURSE!!)
Thursday, December 11 (stations...giant pyramid stacking!!!)
Time:
8:30-9:10am
Thanks!!!
Julie Mickschl