October, 2022

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PUMPKIN PATCH THROW DOWN – Perfect for Halloween

Keeping Kids in Motion

October is one of the most exciting months of the school year for our students. Without a doubt, on October 1st, students will ask, “Are we going play any Halloween games today?” ” Although we’ll sprinkle a few Halloween-themed games into a lesson the first.

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New FDA Resource Helps Teachers Educate Students About the Dangers of Vaping

SHAPE America

Helping Students Avoid Vaping and Nicotine Addiction. As educators, you know that National Health Education Week is a good time to focus on issues that affect the health of our nation’s youth. One important concern is the threat that vaping nicotine poses to middle and high school students.

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Pumpkin Patch Games

Open Phys Ed

Welcome to Pumpkin Patch Games! We’ve reorganized and added new activities! This new Pumpkin Patch landing page includes your favorites from years past, as well as brand new games for 2022! Thank you to the following Pumpkin Patch contributors!

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After Liver Transplant, 5-Year-Old Celebrates the Gift of Life With San Francisco Giants

Stanford Childrens

Partnering on Organ Donor Awareness. Play ball!” 5-year-old Nolan Bryant yelled out as he called the start of a San Francisco Giants baseball game.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Do You Feel Like You are Swimming Against The Tide?

Relentless School Nurse

. The first few months of school have been a whirlwind of confusion, missteps, and a complete lack of clarity. All of this adds up to often making me feel like a salmon, swimming fiercely upstream, against the tide.

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How Scary is Too Scary for Your Kids?

RC Families

There’s a lot of scary going around this time of year. From horror movies to haunted houses to ghost-like trick-or-treaters. Of course, as adults, we take it all in fun, but what about your kids? How scary is too scary for them?

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Arizona Health and Physical Education Joins Forces with Confidence Kits!

Arizona Health and Physical Education

Arizona Health and Physical Education is proud to partner with Confidence Kits. Confidence Kits is a non-profit born out of a group of loving and giving friends who provided hygiene kits to food banks as birthday gifts to one another, as a way of celebrating and giving back to others in need.

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Questioning

Drowning in the Shallow

Questioning is an important teacher behaviour within PE. It is a key part of Rosenshine’s principles of instruction (2012).

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Patients at Stanford Children’s Health Fall for Special Pumpkin Patch

Stanford Childrens

For the first time since the pandemic, the annual Stanford Medicine Children’s Health Pumpkin Patch Fall Festival at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford resumed outdoors in the Dunlevie Garden on Wednesday.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Vote

Relentless School Nurse

. My message today is a simple one: VOTE . Vote your conscience. Vote for candidates who believe that healthcare is a human right. Vote for candidates who value protecting our children and teens from gun violence. Vote for candidates that uphold human dignity.

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3 Reasons Why it’s Okay for You to Miss Your Child’s Youth Sports Event

RC Families

For many parents, youth sports is both a blessing and a curse. We love the fact that physical activity is good for our kids’ physical and emotional development, but attending every game can be a challenge for busy parents.

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GHOSTLY PUMPKINS IN THE GRAVEYARD

Keeping Kids in Motion

Storyline: The silly ghostly pumpkins are once again having a friendly battle in the graveyard. They try to toss gourds at each other in an attempt to knock each other over. A knocked-over ghostly pumpkin is transformed into a jack-o-lantern and is placed on. Physical Education Halloween Games

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Skill: Adapting to the Environment

Player Development Project

PDP Lead Researcher James Vaughan highlights recent experiences adapting to new environments to discuss the research around affordances, forms of life and scorpion kicks. At PDP we often talk about the importance of the player development environment.

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PLT4M and Lakeshore Foundation & NCHPAD Partnership

PLT4M

PLT4M, the Lakeshore Foundation and the National Center on Health, Physical Activity and Disability (NCHPAD) are proud to announce a new partnership.

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NICH Program Gives Parents of Medically-Complex Baby Wings to Fly

Stanford Childrens

Novel Interventions in Children’s Healthcare (NICH) Program supports families of babies with chronic health needs. Xander, age 2, is all in when it comes to enjoying life. Instead of letting health challenges slow him down, he faces them head-on with spunk and determination.

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The Relentless School Nurse: I am a Jewish Woman Who is Speaking Out

Relentless School Nurse

The Nazi party was started by 3 people. I will not sit silently as the rapid rise of antisemitism swirls all around in the vitriol of hate that is festering in our country. The election is just eight days away. Violence is now part of our political discourse.

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How to Help a Child Who is Underachieving

RC Families

Just because your child has low grades does not mean they are an underachiever. Rather, it is a child who gives a noticeably poor effort that results in grades lower than you know they are capable of.

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Unspent PE and sport premium funding from 2021 to 2022 academic year must be returned to the Department for Education

Association for Physical Education

05/10/22 The deadline for using PE and sport premium allocated in the 2021 to 2022 academic year was 31st July 2022. The exceptional permissions for schools to carry forward PE […].

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Creativity: Playground to Premier League

Player Development Project

Where does creativity come from? In this blog PDP Lead Researcher, James Vaughan discusses Yannick Bolasie’s infamous ‘360 flick’ and explores it’s story.

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By: ANALYSIS: Establishing a ‘Pronouns to Surgery Pipeline’ in Wisconsin - Chalkboard Review

Amaze

[…] are sourced from the “3Rs” curriculum created by Advocates for Youth, as well as “Amaze, Jr.” ” videos created by […

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From Birthday Party to Brain Surgery, All in 24 Hours

Stanford Childrens

Back to an Active Life After Brain Tumor. One minute Logan Schwaderer, age 11, was going to his little sister’s birthday party, and the next he was headed to Stanford Medicine Children’s Health for brain surgery. The plan that day was to get the scheduled MRI, then head to the party.

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Get Fit with PE Favorites from Sportime

School Yard

For over 50 years, physical education teachers and childcare providers have trusted Sportime for all their fitness needs. This popular brand in the School Specialty family has all of your PE favorites, from balls to hoops, floor mats to fitness, and storage solutions to keep it all organized.

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Myzone moves into the metaverse with new Web3 platform partnership

My Zone

Myzone has partnered with digital health and fitness company, OliveX Fitness Metaverse, exploring new ways of inspiring people to move more through Web3. News Myzone partners

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GIVING THANKS AND DOING PLANKS – 30-Day Challenge

Keeping Kids in Motion

Are you ready to Flourish with Fitness throughout the month of November? If so, then it’s time for 30 DAYS of GIVING THANKS and DOING PLANKS! Why plank exercises? Plank exercises strengthen the core. Core muscles help to support the body and allow us to use our arms.

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The Relentless School Nurse: Celebrating Wins

Relentless School Nurse

Judy Doran, our Maine school nurse friend who writes “Maine Points” was determined to bring the concerning survey results about the state of mental health in school nursing to the public. She succeeded in writing a compelling Letter to the Editor of the Portland Press Herald!

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Did you know Arizona has a law that requires students in K-5 to participate in 2 recesses a day?

Arizona Health and Physical Education

On April 4, 2018, Senate Bill 1083 was signed into law. The law requires all schools that have grades K-5 provide two recess periods per school day.

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Young Man Becomes First in World to Be Cured of FSGS With New Treatment

Stanford Childrens

Combined stem cell transplant and kidney transplant prove a winning combination against autoimmune FSGS. Imagine spending a good share of your childhood hooked up to a machine.

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I’ve still got it… I think! Two of my recent KS3 PE lessons for you to review!!

The Everlearner

Thank you for visiting my blog. Those of you who know me will know that I specialise in academic PE teaching.

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PE Activities Without Equipment

PLT4M

No equipment, no problem. PE teachers can choose from endless PE activities without equipment. We share six examples of fitness-focused pe activities without equipment and provide a downloadable PDF of even more lessons for your physical education class.

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30 DAYS of GRATITUDE – a great tool for teaching gratitude to children

Keeping Kids in Motion

Oxford Languages defines gratitude as the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness. I was sitting in my office last week when there was a gentle knock on my door. I turned to see three smiling faces staring. Health and Fitness thanksgiving challenge

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The Relentless School Nurse: Coming Full Circle

Relentless School Nurse

On Saturday, October 8, 2022, I will be participating in Gun Violence Awareness Day in Camden, New Jersey, the city where I work, but also where my family’s story of generational gun violence began. . I have told my family’s story many times.