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5 Ways to Celebrate PE & Sport Week in Your School … All Year Long!

SHAPE America

Every May, we celebrate physical educators and coaches — the “champions” who help kids gain the confidence, competence, and motivation to be physically active in school, before and after school, and for the rest of their lives. Implement games into warmups and lessons that foster and complement the development of motor skills.

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Why Game-Play is Important

Physical Education Ideas

Here is a list of why playing games, I believe, is an important and powerful instruction tool. Games provide an environment for engaging practice. Countless hours of workbook pages or textbook exercises don’t exactly stimulate some of the young minds we encounter. Games help provide different structure.