I am a Physical Education teacher at\u00a0Heritage Elementary School in De Pere, Wisconsin. I teach\u00a0Kindergarten through fourth grade, and we have about 500\u00a0students at my school. I’ve been teaching for over 30 years!\u00a0I love to integrate classroom literacy with physical literacy. And my favorite part about being a PE teacher is seeing a student smile when they are successful.<\/p>\n
Current Lesson Plan\/Unit:<\/strong><\/p>\n We teach a Nutrition Unit and then have \u201cHeart Week\u201d. Heart Week consists of a full gym Circulatory System obstacle course that teaches the circulatory system and heart health. Our Nutrition Unit emphasizes the concepts of Whoa-Slow-G0 foods, Energy IN=Energy Out and the number of servings needed a day from the MyPlate food groups for older students. Younger students concentrate on identifying the food groups and eating a balanced diet from all the food groups. The older students get to use the app Eat & Move O\u2019Matic which helps teach the concept of Energy In=Energy Out.\u00a0 Younger students have fruit, vegetable, grain and protein bean bags to sort and catch as they learn about the food groups.<\/p>\n Heart Week consists of the Circulatory System obstacle course and a classroom element. The unit is based on the AHA poem \u201cYou can have a healthy heart. It is as easy as 1-2-3. Eat healthy stuff, move around enough and live tobacco free.\u201d<\/p>\n Classroom activities include:<\/strong><\/p>\n Focus for 2018:<\/strong><\/p>\n We are required to have Personal Professional goal.\u00a0 My goal this year was to create a website that would help parents help their children with physical literacy and fitness.<\/p>\n The Art, Music and PE departments had a family curriculum night entitled Art With Heart and a Beat. The skill posters developed for the website were posted in the gym at each station and I handed out information on accessing the website to parents.<\/p>\n This week for the Featured PE Teacher section on the PE Central Facebook page, the spotlight is on Sandra Hagenbach! About Sandra: I am a Physical Education teacher at\u00a0Heritage Elementary School in De Pere, Wisconsin. I teach\u00a0Kindergarten through fourth grade, and we have about 500\u00a0students at my school. I’ve been teaching for over 30 years!\u00a0I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":12700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1986,18],"tags":[1000,1173,1977,1976,637,275,640,20,1975],"class_list":["post-12641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-pe-teacher","category-pe-central","tag-elementary-school","tag-featured-pe-teacher","tag-heart-week","tag-nutrition-unit","tag-pe","tag-pe-central","tag-physed","tag-physical-education","tag-sandra-hagenbach"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"featured](\"https:\/\/www.ssww.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/PE-11.png\")
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