Kindergarten PE New Mexico Standards

Create movement sequences that are personally interesting and satisfying.

Use physical activity as a measure of self-expression:

Cooperate and share with partners in physical activities;

Celebrate personal successes and achievements and those of others; and

Demonstrate interaction with others while participating in physical activities:

Continue to participate when not successful on the first attempt.

Willingly try new activities; and

Practice physical activities to increase skills:

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

Identify physical activities that are enjoyable:

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

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

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

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

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

Work productively with a variety of partners.

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

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

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

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

Accept consequences of personal choices.

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

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

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

Demonstrate independent work habits during short-term activity.

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

Demonstrate effective communication skills.

Demonstrate the elements of socially acceptable conflict resolution; and

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

Assist partner by sharing observations about skill performance during practice.

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

Work cooperatively and productively with a partner or small group:

Recognize that personal space and emotional safety will be protected;

Use space and equipment safely and properly; and

Utilize safety principles in physical activity settings:

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

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

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

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

Sustain activity for increasingly longer periods of time.

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

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

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

Identify activities designed to improve health-related fitness components.

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

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

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

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

Identify the benefits gained from regular physical activity:

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.).

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

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

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

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

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

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

Demonstrate critical elements of fundamental and specialized movement skills:

Recognize similar movement concepts in a variety of skills;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Demonstrate competency in selected skills utilizing age-appropriate equipment:

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

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

Roll sideways and forwards without hesitating or stopping using control;

Demonstrate competency in selected non-motor patterns:

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

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

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

Demonstrate competency in selected motor skills:

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