Cathy Salmon (Team Leader) Lance Sappington Daley Landon Mary Jobe

 Expose and teach students several individual, team, and lifetime activities.  Learn the value of active participation in sports and recreation throughout life.  Give students the opportunity to improve their physical fitness.  Units include safety, equipment, skills, strategies, cooperation, teamwork, leadership and rules of the activity.

 Illness/injuries need to have notes from parents.  If the illness extends longer than two days, a doctor’s note is required explaining how long the athlete should be out.  Four points are given each day in the following four categories: 1)Warm-Up 2)Effort/Participation 3)Sportsmanship/Behavior 4)Uniform  Make-up slips need to be filled out for any absence.  Check family access for student progress/grades.

 Enter locker rooms in a controlled manner.  Dress into uniform (Names should be on tops and bottoms).  Sweatshirts or pants can be worn over uniforms; appropriate shoes and socks (not Keds or flats).  Earlier classes may want old shoes and extra socks because of wet fields.  Enter gym after being dismissed from locker room and go to squad/roll lines.  Warm ups and attendance taken.  Daily instruction, fitness component, and introduction to activity.  Participate in activity.  Return to locker room and get into street clothes. We come in five minutes early.  Leave when dismissed.

 No mandatory showers.  Classes are coed.  Each Wednesday we have an aerobic/circuit training activity.