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What I’ve Learned About Spreading Kindness in My School — on World Kindness Day and Throughout the Year

SHAPE America

such as teamwork, gratitude, kindness, wellness, and mindfulness. KYSHAPE provides daily slides with prompts, as well as activities and social media posts for each daily theme that administrators, health and physical educators, and other classroom teachers can use. She is the KYSHAPE health.

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How to ‘Spring’ Into Physical Activity During National PE & Sport Week

SHAPE America

Being Outside Does the Body Good Staying active can lead to increased motor development, skill building, and more physically healthy bodies — and being active outside in a natural setting can improve our overall wellness. Show off your creativity side: Revise rules from old games and change them to new and different rules to fit the new game.

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Power-Up Rhythm and Timing in Physical Education Activities

Gopher PE

As knowledge of the impact of motor coordination on children’s cognition and academic achievement evolves, physical educators are increasingly integrating rhythmic coordinative movement into their daily classroom activities to prime the brain for learning. There are so many variations here, use your creativity!

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A Father’s Love Provides a Gift for His Son and a Stranger

Stanford Childrens

Full of personality, he tackles everything with his playful sense of creativity—whether that’s building sandcastles on the beach or finding new ways to play with empty toy boxes. He wondered whether there was a way to coordinate so that timing wouldn’t be an issue. Alex Zwakman, 8, looks at life with joy and curiosity.

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Making Adventure Accessible for EVERYONE in PE!

Gopher PE

Obviously, we would like them all to go up, but medical restrictions challenge us to be more creative. Below you will find some accommodations we have made as well as the benefits climbing has had on our students. The students are challenged with balance and coordination. We begin with traversing the wall.

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Young Man Receives the Rare Gift of Three Transplants   

Stanford Childrens

Well, Joseph (Joe Joe) Sanchez-Munoz loves to dance, especially to Karol G and Bruno Mars. The transplant coordinators were there every step of the way, always on call and available to the family, even calling in the middle of the night or on weekends when needed, or to give the good news that a donated organ had been found.

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“Mama, I can’t sit here any longer.” How PE Changed My Daughter’s Year – and My Perspective

Active Schools Us

Like many PE teachers, he’s had to find ways to engage the kids there in person and the ones at home who are in living rooms and in basements – their creatively is boundless. After PE, my kids are well-behaved, they’re not frustrated, and they play really well together. It’s just amazing.

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