Snow Day Fitness Fortune Teller

Ideas for this activity came from HPE Merritt: Health and Physical Education. Try this fun activity with your family and friends when you miss PE due to snow days or cold days. Making a Fortune Teller Before you begin, download a PDF of the fitness fortune teller template here, print, and cut around the perimeter (step 1) or create your own template. Next, fold it down the center (step 2). Then open it and fold it down the center again so you now have perpendicular creases (step 3). Open it and fold it corner to corner so the paper is now the shape of a triangle (step 4). Open it and fold it corner to corner again, the opposite way (step 5). Open it with the printed side face down and fold one of the corners in so the point meets the center of the paper, aligning it with the creases you made earlier (step 6). Do this with each corner (step 7), until all the corner have been folded in to the center point (step 8). Next flip it over so the colors are face down and pull one corner back in toward the center, aligning the point with the center of the paper (step 9). Repeat until all corners have been folded in to the center (step 10). Now pick up the fortune teller and slide your thumb and index fingers from each hand under the four colored flaps, pushing them in to the center (step 11). When it's done, it should look like the photo in step 12 above.

http://deceptivelyeducational.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/fortune-teller-spelling-review.html

Use these fun fitness cutouts from James Madison University Health and Physical Activity Institute.

What does 2000 calories look like?

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Sledding in PE

Finally we are able to go outside and enjoy the snow.  Students get plenty of exercising while sled riding during their PE class. Both aerobic and muscular components of fitness are being met as well as cooperation skills.

Body BINGO

When the gym is in use we still have fun in PE. Student learn how to adapt old games and create new ones.  Today they participated in PE in the cafeteria and payed exercise bingo. If you do not have the book No Gym? No Problem, I highly recommend it.

Why Physical Education is Important

While doing a search for PE activities, I came across this statement from http://www.aaps.k12.mi.us/dicken.maier/why_is_physical_education_important . 

PE in a Box or Table Top PE Games

Students enjoy PE even when sick or injured.  Over the years I have created PE in A Box lessons.  These games are easy to set.  I have placed each individual game with direction in a zip lock bag. Pick Up Sticks, Chinese Jump Rope, Hounds and The Fox, Table Top Football, Play-Doh Flexology, and Sumo Show Down are a few of the games included in my grab bag box.  PE in a Box also comes in handy when the gymnasium is being used and outside is not an option.  

Here is a link to my PE in a Box lessons.  You will also find resource pages and links to where I obtained some of the games.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CccI4x-8WTNl67gb6SQFekvA8qOwibmEycthWVSvgUw/edit?usp=docslist_api

Plato's Thoughts on Mind and Body

“In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity. Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together. With these means, man can attain perfection.” -Plato