Georgetown's Physical Education Blog

Our fun fact this week is about Liverpool England. Did you know that in England there is no football or baseball. They are big into soccer and some areas are big into Rugby. Chloe (student teacher from Liverpool) thought it was so interesting how football is such a huge sport for us in America.

We had a student teacher from Liverpool , England here with us this past week in the gym. Her name is Chloe Leach. Chloe attends the Hope University in Liverpool. She came here to Michigan to see Hope College and visit area schools to see what teaching is like in America.
Chloe taught some 4th grade boys about rugby. She thought it was funny because they wanted to play it like American football. She got to watch some of our fitness testing and the students working on volleyball. We had a great time!

Our fun fact for the week is….. There is now a special player in volleyball that is substituted in and can only play defense in the back row. Do you know what this person is called? The Libero

Our fun fact this week is about beach volleyball.  Do you know when beach volleyball became an olympic sport?

The answer is:  1996 in the Atlanta games.  The USA men’s team won gold!

The new muscle for the month of May is the Gluteus Maximus.  So we now have abdominals, biceps, triceps, deltoids, cardiac, pectorals, quadriceps, and hamstrings.  See if your children can show you where they are all located.

The fun fact for the week is….The longest single game of volleyball was 51 hours long!!! It was in Australia in November of 2005.

We are in full swing of mileage club for first through fourth graders.  You may have noticed that some of your children are coming home with bright colored shoe laces and foot tokens.  Students can earn prizes for walking and jogging.  One lap around the track earns them one popsicle stick.  When they have 4 popsicle sticks they turn them in and get a mile punched on their mileage marker card.  They have a chance to earn up to 20 miles and many prizes and drawings.  If they make it to 20 miles…they get a popsicle party and an extra recess!  It is a fun program that gives them the incentive to be ACTIVE!!!

Volleyball was first introduced as an Olympic sport in 1964.

Our fun fact for the week is….. the game of volleyball was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan!!!  We are so glad he came up with the idea and shared it with everyone

Just a reminder to please make sure your child/children have a clean pair of tennis shoes in their locker to wear to P.E. class.   The dirt makes our floor very slippery.  Thanks for your help!