Overview
Kindergarten students in SFUSD engage in 100 minutes of weekly physical education instruction provided by a credentialed teacher. This may look like three 35-minute classes per week or five 20-minute classes per week. While lesson structures vary, the overall design of the units remains consistent. Physical Education units prioritize maximum student engagement, motor skill and movement pattern development, creativity and exploration of movement, positive social interactions with peers, growth mindset skills, and development of physical literacy.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION - 100 MINS PER WEEK |
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2 x 35-minute classes per week + 1 x 30-minute class per week |
5 x 20-minute classes per week |
Priority Standards Link to this section
What students will know, what students will do, and what thinking skills students will develop to apply and transfer Physical Education understandings that endure within the discipline, leverage deeper understandings, and/or support readiness for success at the next grade level.
In Kindergarten, focus on these critical areas:
Motor Competency
- Traveling safely with a large group without bumping into others or falling
- Tossing a ball to oneself using the underhand throwing pattern and catching it
- Bouncing a ball continuously using two hands
Making Meaning
- Identifying the locomotor skills of walking, jogging, running, hopping, jumping, skipping, sliding, and galloping
- Identifying specific body parts involved when stretching
- Explaining that the heart beats faster or slower based on movement speed
Social Responsibility
- Using encouraging, kind, and positive language with others
- Taking turns and sharing
- Resolving conflicts appropriately by problem-solving
Instruction: Signature Elements Link to this section
Below are signature elements of SFUSD Physical Education instruction that students should experience regularly throughout Kindergarten as they develop personal physical literacy.
Creativity and Exploration of Movement
It is vital for Kindergarteners to be able to express their creativity and explore movement in order to become competent in motor skills. Give students a multitude of opportunities to create and explore movement by demonstrating various speeds, levels, shapes, rhythmic movements, and manipulatives.
Growth Mindset
Kindergarteners will experience Physical Education lessons that embed growth mindset strategies and language. Students will experience successes and failures guiding them to make meaning that we learn through failures and mistakes. Students will experience language through positive self-talk, exhibiting kind words towards others, and using the power of “yet.”
Thematic-based Lessons
Kindergarteners will experience thematic-based lessons that focus on specific themes to integrate learning. Thematic-based lessons foster and bolster students’ imagination, creativity, self-awareness, relatability, and cooperation with others.
Materials
Beginning of the Year Self-Checklist for K-5 Classroom Teachers
The intent of this Self-Checklist is to uplift basic Physical Education building blocks that every K-5 teacher ought to know.
Units
Unit Resources | Description | |
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Unit Zero - Kindergarten Physical Education | Which PE lesson are you going to teach on the 1st day? Start the school year off by establishing a positive PE classroom environment. Unit Zero provides 3-weeks of lessons that focus on student connections, a sense of self, identity, and a sense of community. What to teach after these lessons? Contact your PE Specialist and make a plan. | |
District Physical Education Curriculum: Grade - Kindergarten |
SFUSD’s district-adopted Physical Education Curriculum is intended for K-5 Classroom Teachers. In Kindergarten this standards-based curriculum (CA State PE Standards) focuses on motor skills, cognitive concepts, cooperative activities, exploration, and thematic-based lessons. | |
OPEN Physical Education Curriculum by US Games | OPEN Physical Education Curriculum is written by and for Physical Educators across the nation. This standards-based curriculum (National SHAPE America Standards) clusters grades K-2 lesson activities together. |
Planning Guide
1st Trimester | 2nd Trimester | 3rd Trimester |
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Focus on locomotor skills and rolling
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Focus on bouncing, jump rope, & fitness concepts
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Focus on throwing and catching
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Report Card Materials - Physical Education
Kindergarten report card expectations, lessons, and assessment tools for Physical Education.
Reflection Questions Link to this section
- How are students' developmental needs, communities, and experiences being reflected and honored, or how could they be?
- What opportunities do you see for developing equitable access & demand, inquiry, collaboration, and assessment for learning?
- What are the implications for your own practice? What strengths can you build upon? What will you do first?
Want More?
Standards
- Physical Education Framework for California Public Schools
- SFUSD Common Core Connections to Physical Education
More Resources
- SFUSD Elementary Physical Education Landing Page
- SFUSD Teaching English Learners in Physical Education
- SFUSD Physical Education Website
- SFUSD Quality Physical Education Indicators
- SFUSD Physical Education Master Plan (SFUSD Board Resolution. PE Master Plan No. 95-26A2)
- CAHPERD Website (CA Physical Education website)
- SHAPE America Website (National Physical Education Website)
Contact the Physical Education Team:
- Desirae Feria, Supervisor Elementary Physical Education
- Demetria Chi, K-5 Physical Education Content Specialist
- Gloria Sagastume, K-5 Physical Education Content Specialist
This page was last updated on September 1, 2022