Yoga with Carol (May 2020)
Well done to everyone who joined in on yoga With Carol on Google Hangouts!
PE With Joe
Don’t forget to join The Body Coach Joe Wicks every morning from 9am for PE With Joe! On Fridays, you can dress up and do the workout!
Stay Active at Home (March/April)
We are doing our teaching and learning at home for the moment, and this includes staying active and practising your PE skills! Children should get at least 30 minutes of good physical activity every day. Here are some suggestions about how to stay active at home.
Warm Up Exercises
Where can I do this: Indoor or outdoor
Equipment: YOURSELF!
- Squats
- Star jumps
- Frog Jumps
- Backward Lunges
- Forward Lunges
- High Knees
- Arm Circle
- Toe touches
- Hopscotch jumps
- Vertical jumps
Games
Where can I do this: Outdoor (be careful of the flower pots!)
Equipment: Football/Tennis Ball/bean bag/rugby ball/sliotar
- Gaelic solos, both feet
- Gaelic hand passes, both hands
- Gaelic pick ups
- Soccer keepy uppies (TRY BEAT 50!)
- Wall ball
- Crossbar Challenge (if suitable)
- Pucks, each hand.
- Bean bag tosses, both hands
- Tennis ball juggles
Yoga Poses
Where can I do this: Indoors
- Tree
- Butterfly
- Downward dog
- Upward dog
- Rag doll hold
- Chair pose
Gymnastics
Where can I do this: Indoors
- Straddle Roll
- Teddy Bear Roll
- Shoulder Rolls
- Pencil Roll
- Log Rolls
Running/Walking Activities
Where can I do this: Outdoors
- 2 laps of Rivermeade Park (if suitable OR any park). Why not time yourself?
- If you have a Fitbit try get 10,000 steps every day. (Please do not buy a watch just for this!)
- If you have a dog, walk the dog for you Mum or Dad. (AGAIN please do not buy a dog just for this!).
- Fun Races, running races, walking races, crab walks, crawls.
Other Ideas
- Mindfulness/Yoga/Warm Ups https://app.gonoodle.com/
- Short Fitness Videos https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1
- Daily Exercises https://rtejr.rte.ie/10at10/
- Yoga/Mindfulness https://www.youtube.com/user/CosmicKidsYoga
- Byrne Performance have several cool videos and game ideas to copy. I have shared there first one and there are many more on his the YouTube page; https://youtu.be/Uy7efbRy0dM
- Cycle with the family (if it is safe and following cycling guidelines https://www.rsa.ie/RSA/Road-Safety/Campaigns/Current-road-safety-campaigns/Cyclists/
- Bring some chalk outside and draw a hopscotch game
- Skipping
- Why not come up with silly competitive games? Get 26 cards, mark them from A to Z. But different exercises on the back of each card. Pick a random letter and your partner has to do that exercise.
- Create your own PE Monopoly Game
- Create your own Fitness Calendar
- Dancing- Maeve Mullins, a teacher and dancer has a fun page on YouTube, here is one of her lessons for all you dancers! https://www.youtube.com/user/maevemullins
- Nature Hunts and Walks
- Many GAA and soccer teams have daily challenges for children to try!
Sheila Whelan Ceilí (March 2020)
A huge well done to all our boys and girls who worked so hard with their teachers on their Irish dancing! They put on a fabulous show.
Fingal Athletics League
Well done to all our boys and girls who trained hard and ran in the Fingal League running competitions. Keep up the good work!
GAA (February 2020)
All of our students are currently having GAA classes with Nigel once a week. They are learning important skills such as throwing, catching, kicking, travelling and balancing.
Operation Get Moving! (January 2020)
In January, we began ‘Operation Get Moving’, where we invited our parents to join in some physical activities with us. Carol leads us as we do aerobics, boxercise and pilates. It has been a great start to 2020! Thank you and well done to all parents who have gotten involved.
Dancing at Christmas! (December 2019)
For our Christmas concert, all classes performed a Christmas dance. We had hip hop, ballet and modern dances to perform. The day was a huge success. Thank you to everyone who came to watch and support us.
Busy Breaks
Busy Breaks are a great way to squeeze in some extra physical activity during our day. They also make sure our brains get a well deserved rest from working so hard! We love go noodle and 10 at 10.
Take on the Teacher Challenge! (September 2019)
We participated in the ‘Take on the Teachers’ challenge this month for National Fitness Day. Junior infants to 2nd class danced their way to victory in a game of musical chairs with the teachers. 3rd to 6th Class didn’t have as much luck, with the teachers winning a game of rounders! Overall, it was a draw and everyone had a great time!
Shake and Wake
Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning we do shake and wake in our classroom to start the day. Our Active Schools Committee comes in to help all the rooms with this. We listen to music to help keep us motivated!
Yard Time
We love to do a variety of activities during yard time. Some of the activities that we enjoy are football, basketball, skipping, hula hoops, dancing, and we even create our own games with chalk such as hopscotch and activity trails!
Rainy Days
In MQI, we even stay active during rainy days! We do rainy day workouts in our classroom if it is too wet to play in the yard.
