Kindergarten PE CA Core Standards

Participate as a leader and a follower during physical activities.

Group Dynamics

Describe how positive social interaction can make physical activity with others more fun.

Demonstrate the characteristics of sharing in a physical activity.

Social Interaction

Participate willingly in physical activities.

Identify the feelings that result from participation in physical activity.

Self-Responsibility

Students demonstrate and utilize knowledge of psychological and sociological concepts, principles, and strategies that apply to the learning and performance of physical activity.

Explain that the body is composed of bones, organs, fat, and other tissues.

Body Composition

Identify the body part involved when stretching.

Flexibility

Describe the role of muscles in moving the bones.

Explain that strong muscles help the body to climb, hang, push, and pull.

Muscular Strength/Endurance

Identify the location of the lungs and explain the role of the lungs in the collection of oxygen.

Explain that physical activity increases the heart rate.

Identify the location of the heart and explain that it is a muscle.

Aerobic Capacity

Explain that nutritious food provides energy for physical activity.

Describe the role of water as an essential nutrient for the body.

Identify physical activities that are enjoyable and challenging.

Fitness Concepts

Students demonstrate knowledge of physical fitness concepts, principles, and strategies to improve health and performance.

Identify indicators of increased capacity to participate in vigorous physical activity.

Assessment

Sustain continuous movement for increasing periods of time while participating in moderate to vigorous physical activity.

Body Composition

Stretch shoulders, legs, arms, and back without bouncing.

Flexibility

Climb a ladder, jungle gym, or apparatus.

Hang from overhead bars for increasing periods of time.

Muscular Strength/Endurance

Participate three to four days each week in moderate to vigorous physical activities that increase breathing and heart rate.

Aerobic Capacity

Participate in physical activities that are enjoyable and challenging.

Fitness Concepts

Students assess and maintain a level of physical fitness to improve health and performance.

Describe the position of the fingers in the follow-through phase of bouncing a ball continuously.

Identify the point of contact for kicking a ball in a straight line.

Explain the role of the eyes when striking objects with the hands, arms, and feet.

Manipulative Skills

Identify the locomotor skills of walk, jog, run, hop, jump, slide, and gallop.

Locomotor Movement

Explain base of support.

Identify and describe parts of the body: the head, shoulders, neck, back, chest, waist, hips, arms, elbows, wrists, hands, fingers, legs, knees, ankles, feet, and toes.

Body Management

Identify and independently use personal space, general space, and boundaries and discuss why they are important.

Explain the difference between under and over, behind and in front of, next to and through, up and down, forward and backward, and sideways.

Movement Concepts

Students demonstrate knowledge of movement concepts, principles, and strategies that apply to the learning and performance of physical activities.

Clap in time to a simple, rhythmic beat.

Perform locomotor and nonlocomotor movements to a steady beat.

Rhythmic Skills

Bounce a ball continuously, using two hands.

Kick a stationary object, using a simple kicking pattern.

Toss a ball to oneself, using the underhand throw pattern, and catch it before it bounces twice.

Strike a stationary ball or balloon with the hands, arms, and feet.

Manipulative Skills

Jump over a stationary rope several times in succession, using forward-and-back and side-to-side movement patterns.

Travel in straight, curved, and zigzag pathways.

Perform a continuous log roll.

Locomotor Movement

Demonstrate the relationship of under, over, behind, next to, through, right, left, up, down, forward, backward, and in front of by using the body and an object.

Balance while walking forward and sideways on a narrow, elevated surface.

Balance on one, two, three, four, and five body parts.

Create shapes by using nonlocomotor movements.

Body Management

Create shapes at high, medium, and low levels by using hands, arms, torso, feet, and legs in a variety of combinations.

Demonstrate contrasts between slow and fast speeds while using locomotor skills.

Travel forward and sideways while changing direction quickly in response to a signal.

Travel within a large group, without bumping into others or falling, while using locomotor skills.

Movement Concepts

Students demonstrate the motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities.