Grade 2 PE New Mexico Standards

Demonstrate critical elements of fundamental and specialized movement skills:

Begin to interpret the results and demonstrate understanding of the significance of information provided by measures of physical fitness.

Create movement sequences that are personally interesting and satisfying.

Participate regularly in a variety of non-structured and minimally-organized physical activities outside of physical education class (i.e., ball play, tag, hide and seek, skipping, etc.).

Repeatedly jump a self-turned rope and a rope turned by others;

Place a variety of body parts into high, medium and low levels

Roll sideways and forwards without hesitating or stopping using control;

Repeat cue words for selected motor skills and demonstrate/explain what is meant by each;

Willingly try new activities; and

Applies movement concepts and principles to the learning and development of motor skills. Students will:

Accurately recognize critical elements of selected skills made by a fellow student and provide positive information and corrective information feedback to that student.

Accept all playmates without regard to personal differences (i.e., age, race, ethnicity, gender, ability level, etc.).

Demonstrates understanding and respect for differences among people in physical activity settings. Students will:

Recognize physiological signs and benefits associated with participation in moderate to vigorous physical activity; and

Work productively with a variety of partners.

Continue to participate when not successful on the first attempt.

Engage in moderate to vigorous physical activity most days of the week; and

Participate in moderate to vigorous physical activities in a variety of settings:

Identify the benefits gained from regular physical activity:

Select and participate regularly in health-related physical activities for enjoyment:

Understands that physical activity provides opportunities for enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and social interaction. Students will:

Demonstrate interaction with others while participating in physical activities:

Accept consequences of personal choices.

Demonstrate competency in selected skills utilizing age-appropriate equipment:

Use physical activity as a measure of self-expression:

Use space and equipment safely and properly; and

Achieves and maintains a health-enhancing level of physical fitness. Students will:

Continuously dribble a ball, using hands or feet, without losing control; and

Celebrate personal successes and achievements and those of others; and

Demonstrate smooth transitions between sequential motor skills (i.e., running into a jump).

Demonstrate concepts of body, effort, space and relationships in movement:

Articulate cultural/ethnic self awareness through written, oral or physical expression.

Recognize that personal space and emotional safety will be protected;

Receive and send an object in a continuous motion (i.e., throwing/catching, kicking/trapping, striking, volleying, etc.).

Demonstrate sufficient muscular strength to be able to bear body weight for climbing, hanging and momentary body support on the hands; and

Demonstrate competency in selected motor skills:

Recognize the talents that individuals with differences can bring to group activities:

Identify activities designed to improve health-related fitness components.

Form round, narrow, wide and twisted body shapes alone and with a partner.

Identify the three human somatotypes (endomorph, ectomorph and mesomorph) and recognize own healthy body type.

Recognize similar movement concepts in a variety of skills;

Recognize personal strengths and weaknesses based on participation in various physical activities.

Consistently comply with the physical education classroom rules to ensure the physical and emotional safety for all;

Refine movement errors in response to positive information and corrective information feedback;

Participate in a variety of games and activities that increase respiration and heart rate;

Work independently and on-task for short periods of time:

Demonstrates responsible personal and social behavior in physical activity settings. Students will:

Demonstrate the application of critical cues in selected motor skills; and

Experience differences and similarities among people of different backgrounds by participating in activities of national, cultural and ethnic origins:

Work cooperatively and productively with a partner or small group:

Identify physical activities that are enjoyable:

Demonstrate effective communication skills.

Recognize the influence of peer pressure and identify ways of resolving conflict:

Match different types of physical activities with health-related physical fitness components:

Explore cultural/ethnic self-awareness through participation in physical activity:

Demonstrate the elements of socially acceptable conflict resolution; and

Assist partner by sharing observations about skill performance during practice.

Utilize safety principles in physical activity settings:

Sustain activity for increasingly longer periods of time.

Travel, changing speed, direction and pathway, quickly and safely without falling; travel while demonstrating a variety of relationships with objects (i.e., over, under, behind, alongside, through, etc.); and

Demonstrate independent work habits during short-term activity.

Demonstrate skills of chasing, fleeing and dodging to avoid others; and

Identify several individual and dual physical activities that they find personally enjoyable.

Experience and recognize different types of physical activities and their healthful benefits;

Recognize that health-related physical fitness consists of several components; and

Distinguish between compliance and non-compliance with game rules and fair play; and

Cooperate and share with partners in physical activities;

Demonstrates competency in many movement forms and proficiency in a few movement forms. Students will:

Use concepts of space awareness and relationships to others to run, hop and skip in different pathways and directions in a large group without bumping into others or falling; and

Recognize classroom and activity rules; grades K-4 performance standards:

Travel in a variety of locomotor patterns (i.e., hop, skip, jump, gallop, slide, etc.) using mature form;

Demonstrate competency in selected non-motor patterns:

Invite a peer to take his turn at a piece of apparatus before repeating turn; and

Balance demonstrating momentary stillness in symmetrical and asymmetrical shapes on a variety of body parts; and

Exhibits knowledge and ability to participate in a physically active lifestyle. Students will:

Practice physical activities to increase skills:

Recognize how the media, particularly advertising, influences the perception of ideal body types:

Demonstrate motor skills, motor behaviors and motor learning concepts in increasingly complex movement situations: