Health & PE Kindergarten

Chester Township Public Schools
Health & Physical Education

Health & PE - Kindergarten

Health & PE

The goal of our comprehensive health and physical education program in full compliance with New Jersey Core Curriculum Standards for Health and Physical Education and provide a quality program that empowers students to make informed decisions about issues that impact their present health, the health of their family and the health of society at-large and enable students to enact students-enhancing behaviors before damaging patterns are firmly established. These goal are designed to enhance students' ability to become cautious and competent consumers and to strengthen students' ability to recognize, analyze and react to unhealthy or dangerous situations in a safe and appropriate manner.

In addition the our goals seek to empower students to navigate through and around conflicting messages, risky students, and mounting pressures and to develop dependable support systems and assist students to recognize, understand, and address immediate or chronic health problems in order to prevent long-term health problems. It is our hope that our comprehensive health and physical education program will enable students to participate in students activities that promote, support and maintain wellness and promote a lifetime of participation in activities that promote health and well being..

Health education is a planned sequential, K-8 students that addresses the physical, mental, emotional and social dimensions of health. The curriculum is designed to motivate and assist students to maintain and improve their health , prevent disease, and reduce health-related risk behaviors.

Physical education is a planned K-8 curriculum that provides cognitive content and learning experiences in a variety of activity areas such as basic movement skills, physical fitness, rhythm and dance along with games, team dual and individual sports.

Kindergarten

The Kindergaten Health and Physical Education program explores concepts of movement techniques, skills and fitness. Issuse of disease prevention, safety and violence prevention.

Movement Concepts
The learner will be able to perform locomotor (walk, run, jump), nonlocomotor (bend, reach, turn), and manipulative (throw, strike, kick) movement skills (NJCCCS 2.5).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Movement Concepts	Application	Introduce	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, Health and Physical Education Teachers.

Basic Movement
The learner will be able to modify basic movement skills by applying movement concepts (direction, speed), biomechanical principles (force, projection), and rhythm (tempo, beat). (NJCCCS 2.5).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Movement Concepts	Application	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, Health and Physical Education Teachers.

Movement Skills
The learner will be able to adapt movement skills in relation to objects, other participants, and boundaries. (NJCCCS 2.5).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Movement Concepts		Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, Health and Physical Education Teachers.

Movement Skills
The learner will be able to combine movement skills to participate in physical activities such as games, sports, and lifetime recreational pursuits. (NJCCCS 2.5).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Fitness Concepts	Application	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, Health and Physical Education Teachers.

Techniques
The learner will be able to demonstrate appropriate techniques used in fitness activities. (NJCCCS 2.6).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Fitness Concepts	Application	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, Health and Physical Education Teachers.

Fitness
The learner will be able to identify the components of health-related fitness and describe activities related to each component. (NJCCCS 2.6).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Fitness Concepts	Application	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, Health and Physical Education Teachers.

Fitness
The learner will be able to demonstrate appropriate techniques used in fitness activities. (NJCCCS 2.6).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Fitness Concepts	Knowledge	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, Health and Physical Education Teachers.

Fitness
The learner will be able to describe how fitness activities enhance wellness. (NJCCCS: 2.6).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Fitness Concepts	Comprehension	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, Health and Physical Education Teachers.

Fitness
The learner will be able to participate in health-related fitness activities. (NJCCCS 2.6).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Fitness Concepts	Application	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, Health and Physical Education Teachers.

Fitness
The learner will be able to develop and attain a personal fitness goal to improve performance. (NJCCCS 2.6).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Fitness Concepts	Application	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, Health and Physical Education Teachers.

Health: Disease Prevention
The learner will be able to apply skills to prevent and control the spread of disease, including those that help promote control (such as correct hand washing, regular bathing, and washing clothes) (NJCCCS 2.1).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Disease Prevention	Application	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, Health and Physical Education Teachers.

Health: Safety
The learner will be able to name rules for fire safety, bus safety, and seat belt use where applicable, such as at home school, community and play and explain why the rules are important. (NJCCCS 2.1).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Disease Prevention	Knowledge	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, Health and Physical Education Teachers.

Health: Violence Prevention
The learner will be able to describe some of the ways that young children can be intentionally helpful and intentionally hurtful to one another. (NJCCCS 2.2).

Strand	Bloom's	Scope	Source
Disease Prevention	Knowledge	Master	New Jersey Core Curriculum Content Standards, Health and Physical Education Teachers.