4th and 5th Grade Physical Education
Curriculum
September-October
Intro/Expectations – Opening game – “Look-Up/Look-Down”
Soccer Unit – 3 weeks – 6 lessons; skill development; Side Line Soccer
Push-Up Tag; K Ball – 1 week – 2 lessons
Football Unit – 3 weeks – 6 lessons; throwing and catching skill development;
“Capture the Football” game
November-December
Dance – “Cupid Shuffle” – K Ball – 1 week – 2 lessons
Volleyball – 3 Weeks – 5-6 lessons
Locomotor skills; run, gallop, skip, slide warm-up – Dance warm-up: “Cupid Shuffle”,
“Respect” “Cha Cha Slide”
Skill development – bump, set, serve – Game Play
Games – “Sherlock Holmes” – 1 week
Skating – 3 weeks – 6 lessons
January
Basketball & Jump Rope For Heart – 3 weeks – 6 lessons
Jump Rope Skill Development – Warm-up
Ball Handling skills; dribbling skills; shooting skill development
Lead-up Games: Dribble Freeze Tag; Basketball Scramble
Jump Rope For Heart Week – Stations: 30 second JR Test/Height and
Weight and DOB for Fitness Gram; Pogo Sticks; Skippits; Balance Station
Stilts, and balance boards; Long Ropes
February
Floor Hockey – 3 weeks – 6 lessons
Pacer Warm-up; passing, shooting skill development practice\
Game Play
March
Games – 3/4 weeks
“Mission Impossible” 1 lesson
K- Ball – 1 Lesson
“Hawk Ball” – 5 Lessons (Indoor Kickball Game)
March - April
Fitness Testing: Curl-Up Test – K-Ball – 1 lesson
Stations – 2 weeks – 3 – 4 Lessons
Stations: Long Ropes; Pogo Sticks; Throwing & Catching;
BB Shooting; Long Ropes; Testing: Sit &Reach – Trunk Lift
Juggling – 1 week – 2 lessons; Pacer Warm-up; Scarves Columns/ Cascades
Flexed Arm Hang – 1 lesson outside
April – May – June
Tennis – 2 weeks – 4 lessons: Balance Ball Skills; relays; volley hits – bumps; with
partner hitting spot; at wall; over net
Game – Push-Up Tag – K Ball
Golf – 1/2 Lessons – Mini golf course – Half/swing/chip to hoops
Kickball – 1 – 2 weeks 2-3 Lessons