Assignment Topic
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Directions
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What to Turn In
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Staying Active & Eating Healthy
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Complete lesson plan: Turn the TV Off
Grade 2 Warm Up & Cool Down Exercises
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Worksheet: Grade two lesson five, TV turn off
(found in lesson plans)
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Importance of Sleep
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Review the information about the importance of sleep at: www.helpguide.org/life/sleeping.htm
Keep your own sleep diary.
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Sleep Diary
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Muscle Endurance
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Your child should be able to:
Perform abdominal curl-ups, modified push-ups, oblique curl-ups, forward and side lunges, squats, and triceps push-ups from a chair or bench to enhance endurance and increase muscle efficiency.
Traverse the overhead ladder one bar at a time.
Review How Do They Stay Healthy terminology
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How Many Push-ups Can You Do?
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Flexibility & Stretching
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Your child should be able to:
Demonstrate the proper form for stretching the hamstrings, quadriceps, shoulders, biceps, and triceps.
Identify the muscles being stretched during the performance of particular physical activities.
Explain why it is safer to stretch a warm muscle rather than a cold muscle.
2nd Grade Warm Up and Cool Down Exercises
Complete activity: Tootsie Roll Flexibility Lesson
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Tootsie Roll Flexibility Worksheet
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Healthy Eating
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Review dietary recommendations at:http://www.choosemyplate.gov/kids/index.html
Complete the Sugar Detectives activity.
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Sugar Detectives
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Healthy Eating
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Complete lesson:
How Does Physical Activity Help Your Body?
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Activity Check-Up
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Staying Active
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Health and Fitness, Chapter 5,
Keeping Fit and Active
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Activity pgs. 21, 22: Keeping Fit and Active
Activity pg. 23: Find the Main Idea (benefits of exercise)
Activity pg. 24: Steps for Managing Stress
Activity pg. 25: Words for Fitness
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Dance
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National Dance Week Dance Projects-Grade 2
Complete all or some of the activities listed in the lesson plans.
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Social Studies-
Preserving History questions and answers
found in packet
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Folk Dance
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Your child should be able to:
Perform with and without a partner rhythmic sequences related to simple folk dance or ribbon routines.
http://www.folkdance.com/html/Sampler.html
Watch the videos above and try a few out on your own. Write a paragraph about your folk dance experience. Which country's folk dance do you like the best?
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Write a paragraph about your folk dance experience. Which country's folk dance do you like the best?
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Folk Dance
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Traditional American Indian Dances
http://tube.sandi.net/video/videos/1083/moving-with-tradition
Watch the video and participate in the traditional dance lessons.
Write a paragraph about your experience.
Do you think today's favorite past times keep us more or less active than traditions from long ago? Explain.
If you are not very active, what can you do to become more active?
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Write a paragraph about your experience.
Do you think today's favorite past times keep us more or less active than traditions from long ago?
If you are not very active, what can you do to become more active?
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The Lungs
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Your child should be able to:
Describe the relationship between the heart and lungs during physical activity.
Watch the video at:http://kidshealth.org/kid/closet/movies/RSmovie.html?tracking=59983_C
Complete worksheet: How the Body Works:The Lungs
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How the Body Works: The Lungs
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The Heart
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Your child should be able to:
Describe the relationship between the heart and lungs during physical activity.
Watch the video at:
http://kidshealth.org/kid/closet/movies/CSmovie.html?tracking=59983_C
Complete worksheet: How the Body Works:The Heart
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How the Body Works: The Heart
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The Lungs
(Respiratory System)
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Human Body Series: Respiratory System
Complete lessons and activities at:
Body Series: Respiratory System
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Exercises for
Healthy Lungs
(found in packet)
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Heart Rate
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Your child should be able to:
Compare and contrast changes in heart rate before, during, and after physical activity.
Read and discuss information:
Your Heart Poster
Complete activities at: Feel and Graph the Beat
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Feel and Graph the Beat Worksheet
(found in packet)
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Staying Active
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Health and Fitness, Chapter 1,
Your Growing Body
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Activity Book pgs.1, 2: Your Growing Body
Activity Book p. 3: Sequence
Activity Book p. 4: Set Goals for Exercise
Activity Book p. 5: Body Systems
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Sportsmanship
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Demonstrate respect for self, others, and equipment during physical activities.
Health and Fitness, Chapter 10,
Your Feelings
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Activity pg. 50: Put Your Feelings into Words
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How your Body Works
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Your Body-Mini Books
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Your choice of mini-book(s)
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