Check out the Family Fitness Challenge on Friday! Encourage all of the families in your school to participate this week. Has your principal registered to participate in physical education class this week at www.naspeinfo.org? There’s still time to register for the NASPE/Polar Principal’s Contest and a chance for your school to win $3200 in heart rate monitor equipment.

• Plan a circus circuit in your physical education class. Include such activities as juggling, yoyos, stilt walking, tumbling, and hula hooping.
  
  
• Have the students try “Bouncing Extraordinaire.” Put out 2-3 times the numbers of balls compared to the number of students. For example, if there are 20 students in class, then put 40-60 balls in the area. Have the students attempt to get all of the balls bouncing and then keep the balls bouncing.
  
  
• Have students attempt to dribble a basketball while tossing and catching a rubber chicken to a partner. See how many times the pairs can toss and catch the chicken without dropping it.
  
  
• Have the students demonstrate spinjammer tricks. Have the students challenge other students to try the invented tricks.
  
  
• Give each student a ball that bounces and a juggling scarf. Have the students place the scarf on the ball. See if they can bounce the ball and have the scarf fly so they can catch the ball and then the scarf. Ask the students to work with a partner to invent a trick using the balls and scarves.
  
  
• Have the students play a game of “Giant Basketball.” Replace the traditional basketball with a a very large beach ball or large exercise ball. Have them shoot at a square drawn with tape on the wall.
  
  
• Look at the May Teacher’s Tool Box sponsored by NASPE for other physical activity ideas.
  
  

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• Bookmarks: Use these as prizes. Challenge the students to collect all six bookmarks. In addition, you could use these as promotional items. Simply run the bookmarks on heavier paper. Put your name, title and a short motivational quote on the back of the bookmark. Send them home with the students.
  
  
• Greeting cards: Use these cards as an introduction to National Physical Education and Sport Week. Put them on the elementary students’ desks the week before and began to build the anticipation for Sport and Physical Education Week.
  
  
• Signs: Use these to decorate the gym. Ask the classroom teachers if you would be allowed to put a sign up in their classroom to encourage physical activity outside of the class day and/or to build the anticipation for National Physical Education and Sport Week.
  
  
• Parent coupons: Give each student a set of these. Have the students encourage their parents to become physically active through the use of these coupons.