Change Your Speed

Soccer Skills

1/2 Mile Run

Turkey Trot

 

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My name is Lorena Diaz.  I will be teaching Lower School Physical Education (P.E.), starting from Pre-kindergarten through 4th grade. 

P.E. will look and feel different this school year, but we will continue to:

• Encourage a healthy and active lifestyle
• Nurture sportsmanship in all aspects of competition
• Widen each student’s sporting experience and enjoyment
• Assist students in reaching their physical potential in a variety of sporting environments

I look forward to working with all of you.

PreK Lemurs

Yarn Ball Toss

Ghosts in the Graveyard

Fire and Ice Tag

West Campus Walk – Hide and Seek

Love their beautiful line!

Kindergarten

Ghosts in the Graveyard

Sink the Ship

Exercise Roll

Color Shopping

1st Grade

Ghosts in the Graveyard

Sink the Ship

 

Yarn Ball Toss

One of their favorites!

Exercise Roll

Color Shopping

2nd Grade

Line Tag

Yarn Ball Toss

One of their favorites!  Girls wanted to play the last game girls vs boys.  The boys unanimously thought it would be fair to allow the girls basket to be a foot closer to them.

   

Color Shopping

3rd Grade

Capture the Flag

Hand Ball

Big Ball Volleyball

 

Soccer

4th Grade

Sink the Ship 

Yoshi  

Hand Ball

 

5th Grade

Sink the Ship

 

Hand Ball

 

Yoshi

 

My name is Lorena Diaz.  I will be teaching Lower School Physical Education, starting from Pre-K through 5th grade.  Additionally, I will be coaching Cross Country this Fall.  I am very excited to take on this new role.  One of our goals will be to take this opportunity to teach health and fitness as a way of life.  I look forward to working with all of you.

I am a parent of 4.  My son, Adolfo, graduated from Quest a year ago.  Nadia (8th), Gael (6th) and Ahtziri (2nd) currently attend Quest.  This will be our 7th year being a part of the Quest family. 

 

Thankfully the Polar Vortex of 2019 has come and went!  As we continue to thaw out from it we all are probably just a bit more appreciative for our temperature controlled dwellings and environments these days.  (Here’s a picture of Mr. Gibson getting the mail this past Wednesday morning)…

 

…meanwhile January was very eventful in PE!  We introduced hockey to the lower elementary and worked up to full fledged PE versions of hockey in the “upper el”.  Later in the month we played modified versions of bowling.

During our hockey unit, Declan brought his hockey stick in from his team and let his classmates feel what a “real” hockey stick is like.  He also spoke about his own experiences as a young player and even helped Mr. Gibson with some of the terminology!  Thanks, Declan!!

(above) Kindergarten working on their shooting/passing skills

(below) Fourth grade playing 1/2 court hockey

 

Our third graders playing 4 corner-bowling

First Grade playing “meet me in the middle” (from December)

 

Looking ahead in February, we will be playing basketball, volleyball learning about nutrition and developing an exercise routine!

Prepared to be inspired and informed!  See you there!

Winter may have arrived a little early but we’re starting to simmer in PE class thanks now thanks to our new pedometers.  Our intensity has been raised a notch as students are pushing themselves to earn as many steps as possible during their PE classes. After only our first week with them, our lower-school students were able to amass over 200,000 steps which translated into over 80 miles which put us is into the town of Janesville, Wisconsin!

Upper Elementary started playing Tchoukball, a handball-style game that is played by throwing a ball against an inclined tension net.  It involves teamwork, throwing, catching and geometry.

(Below) Lower School students played a variety of activities including a modified version of Tchoukball, “Germ Tag”, Juggling scarves, “Turkeys and Farmers” and more.

 

 

 

 

 

We have officially introduced our new pedometers in PE class!  These were purchased with the recent grant received last month and are excellent motivators for increased students’ intensity during PE.  The students have really stepped up their game this week and are eager to know the results from our destination city vote for our upcoming Step Challenge!!!  More news to come soon!

                            

(left to right)

(l) Sanya “shows her zeros” before first attaching the pedometer

(m) Third Graders accumulate steps

(r) 5th Graders realize hula-hooping also registers “steps”