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Course Description: Students study proper nutrition and safety, including fire safety and the dangers of drugs and alcohol. Students will develop their strength and endurance while learning the proper way to exercise as they do football and basketball drills.
Levels:
Level 1-4 — 1st through 4th
Level 5-8 — 5th through 8th
Week 1
Level 1-4
Welcome to your first day of school! I wanted to give you one important reminder before you begin. Many of your lessons below have an internet link for you to click on. When you go to the different internet pages for your lessons, please DO NOT click on anything else on that page except what the directions tell you to. DO NOT click on any advertisements or games. DO NOT click on anything that takes you to a different website. Just stay focused on your lesson and then close that window and you should be right back here for the next lesson. Okay?
- If you didn’t get here through My EP Assignments, I suggest you go there and create an account.
- In our computer courses, we talk about being safe on the internet. There are other types of safety too. We don’t touch hot things. We look both ways before we cross a street. But there are other things we need to be careful of. No one is allowed to touch you in a way that you don’t like. No one is allowed to tell you to show them any part of your body hidden under clothing. If someone is talking to you or touching you in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable, talk to your parents or someone your family trusts right away.
- Play follow the leader to get some exercise. Make each other move!
- This is the end of your work for this course for today. You are allowed to move at your own pace (this is homeschooling), but it’s intended you complete one lesson each week.
Level 5-8
Welcome to your first day of school! I wanted to give you one important reminder before you begin. Many of your lessons below have an internet link for you to click on. When you go to the different internet pages for your lessons, please DO NOT click on anything else on that page except what the directions tell you to. DO NOT click on any advertisements or games. DO NOT click on anything that takes you to a different website. Just stay focused on your lesson and then close that window and you should be right back here for the next lesson. Okay?
- If you didn’t get here through My EP Assignments, I suggest you go there and create an account.
- In our computer courses, we talk about being safe on the internet. There are other types of safety too. We don’t touch hot things. We look both ways before we cross a street. But there are other things we need to be careful of. No one is allowed to touch you in a way that you don’t like. No one is allowed to tell you to show them any part of your body hidden under clothing. If someone is talking to you or touching you in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable, talk to your parents or someone your family trusts right away.
- Ask your mom what you can scrub or find a stubborn stain. Scrub until your arm hurts and then scrub another minute more.
- This is the end of your work for this course for today. You are allowed to move at your own pace (this is homeschooling), but it’s intended you complete one lesson each week.
Week 2
Level 1-4
- Read about why water is the best drink to drink.
- Ask your mom if you can choose a recipe to make. (Click on the + by Recipes for Kids.)
Level 5-8
- Watch these videos on sugar: How sugar affects the body; How sugar affects the immune system
Week 3
Level 1-4
- Play animal charades to get moving.
Level 5-8
- Vacuum the rug or mop the floor (whichever your mother prefers). Put some muscle in it!
Week 5
Level 1-4/5-8
- The three P’s of fire safety are prevent, plan, and practice.
- You prevent fires from staying away from them. Don’t cook unsupervised. Don’t play with matches or lighters. Don’t play around candles. You keep papers and towels and things away from things that get hot.
- Watch this video on planning and practicing a fire escape. This sheet could help too.
- Today, you can work on a plan. In the next lesson, you will practice.
Week 6
- Practice your escape route all together as a family. Time yourselves, starting from different places in the house. Close doors on your way out. What was your fastest time?
Week 7
Level 1-4
- Play catch. Every time you catch the ball, take a step backward. If you don’t have anyone to play catch with, then practice your aim. Pick a spot and keep score as to how many times in a row you can hit it. Keep moving farther away from the target. When you miss, take a step forward.
Level 5-8
- What does it mean to burn calories? Calories are a measure of the energy your body takes in through food. Your body needs energy to do everything it does. But you need a lot more energy to dance than to watch TV! If you don’t use or “burn” off enough calories, then they turn into fat. I don’t want you worrying about getting fat or using your calories. Your goal should be to eat healthy and live healthy. Living healthy means not just sitting all day but getting up and moving. One way to do that is with chores. Yeah!
- I wasn’t kidding telling you to do cleaning for exercise. Check out this list of how many calories you burn doing housework.
- Choose something on the list and figure out how long you’d have to do it to burn 50 calories according to the list. Do it!
Week 8
Level 1-4
Week 9
Level 1-4
- Jump! (but not on a bed!)
Level 5-8
- Jump rope for as long as you can. Time yourself.
- Then take a break.
- Then do it again. Which time did you jump the longest?
- If you don’t have a jump rope, then just jump.
Week 10
Level 1-4
- Figure out an estimate of how many calories you used yesterday being active. An estimate means a good guess. You don’t need to know the exact amount of time you spent doing things. If you didn’t do any of those things, how about sitting and reading, talking, sleeping, eating, doing chores? Use the calorie counter sheet that is closest to your weight (60 or 90 lbs): Calories burned 60 or Calories burned 90
- Remember your body uses calories just breathing, but the more you do the more energy (calories) you need.
Level 5-8
- Figure out an estimate of how many calories you used yesterday being active. An estimate means a good guess. You don’t need to know the exact amount of time you spent doing things. You can choose “sitting” under occupation and the top one under that for doing your school work. Use the calorie counter sheet that is closest to your weight (60 or 90 lbs): Calories burned 60 or Calories burned 90
- Look at this chart. How many calories do you need each day to keep your body going?
Week 11
Level 1-4
- Follow the directions in the video. EXCEPT DON’T SCREAM!
- Play it again.
Level 5-8
- Jump rope longer than you did last time. Don’t stop until you’ve passed your best time from the last time.
- If you don’t have a jump rope, just jump.
Week 12
Level 1-4
- Play the household hazard game.
- Go to the different rooms. Can you spot what is unsafe?
Level 5-8
- Find all the household hazards.
Week 14
Level 1-4
- See how long you can balance on one foot. Then see how long you can balance on the other foot. Then try to beat your record. STOPWATCH FOR TIMING
Level 5-8
- Jump to 2:55 and do the workout with the kids. Make it harder; get plastic bags and put something a little heavy into them.
Week 15
Level 1-4/5-8
- Learn about why we sleep.
- How do humans compare? How much sleep do you get? How do you compare?
Week 16
Level 1-4
- Read about eating right.
Level 5-8*
- Read about eating right.
- *Today try and estimate how many ounces of cheese, meat, and grains you eat and compare it to the list in this chapter. Use this sheet (Nutrition) to help you keep track.
Week 17
Level 1-4
- Play the freeze game. Have someone play music. You jump and dance to it until they turn it off. Then freeze. When they turn the music back on, go back to jumping and dancing. Keep going until the song is done.
Level 5-8
- Build an obstacle course and keep doing it to get faster and faster times.
Week 18
Level 1-4/5-8
- Fix a healthy lunch.
- There’s a long list there. Can you pick a menu and fix it for lunch or a snack? What makes it a healthy choice?
Week 19
- Try this scavenger hunt. Use this stopwatch to see how quickly you can find the items listed below:
- a pillow
- a magazine
- a quarter
- a broom
- a plant
Week 21
Level 1-4/5-8
- We’re going to learn some about different sports. Football will be first. This week this video will teach you about warming up. You can stop or replay the video and do those different things to get your body going.
Week 22
Level 1-4
- Read the rules of football and explain them to someone.
- What does the offense do?
Level 5-8
- If you don’t know what a quarterback is, read the rules of football and explain them to someone.
- If you have the basic idea of how the game works, then read more about the rules, positions, and more if you like.
Week 23
Level 1-4/5-8
- Do your warm-up, then learn to run. Then run!
- You can do this every day this week.
Week 24
Level 1-4/5-8
- Read about the dangers of alcohol.
- Write a list of reasons to not drink alcohol. Start with the title: “Reasons not to drink alcohol…” You can give this to a parent to put in your portfolio.
Week 25
Level 1-4/5-8
- Warm up and run if you like. This week we will learn to jump and then jump a lot. Warning: Jump on low things that are VERY stable and can’t tip over.
- You can do this every day.
Week 26
Level 1-4/5-8
- Warm up and stretch first. Then do some jumps. Then practice agility. You’ll have to be creative to make a little drill area.
- You can do this every day.
Week 27
Level 1-4/5-8
- Warm up first.
- Then do jumps and agility practice.
- Then continue your training. Watch the whole video. Practice each move. You should practice running for 5 minutes. You don’t have to have disks, just create a space where you can do things like this.
- Walk around once you are done.
- You can do this every day.
Week 28
Level 1-4/5-8
- Do your exercises: warm up, jump, agility, changing directions, and now cool down.
- You can do this every day.
Week 29
Level 1-4
- Learn about hydration. Read the directions below.
- Read the introduction.
- Skip over the plant section and find a parent or older sibling.
- List the items in the activity and ask them to say true or false, telling you if water really does those things.
Level 5-8
- Watch this video on reading labels to eat well.
Week 30
Level 1-4
- You are going to learn about another sport, basketball.
- Learn how to play the game.
Level 5-8
- You are going to learn about another sport, basketball.
- Learn how to play the game.
- Learn some basketball terminology.
Week 31 (jump rope)
Level 1-4/5-8
- Every day continue to warm up and cool down, but now here are new drills to use to exercise in between.
- Here are your first two drills.
- jump rope (pretend if you don’t own one)
- quick skips
- Remember, you can do these every day, not just once a week.
Week 32
Level 1-4/5-8
- Every day continue to warm up before your exercise and cool down when you are finished.
- Here are your next two drills. You can use your previous drills too.
Week 33
Level 1-4/5-8
- Every day continue to warm up before your exercise and cool down when you are finished.
- Here are your next drills. You can use your previous exercises too.
Week 34
Level 1-4/5-8
- Every day continue to warm up before your exercise and cool down when you are finished.
- Here are your next two drills. You can use your previous drills too.
Week 35
Level 1-4/5-8
- Every day continue to warm up before your exercise and cool down when you are finished.
- Here are your next two drills. You can use your previous drills too.
Week 36
Level 1-4/5-8
- Every day continue to warm up before your exercise and cool down when you are finished.
- Here are your next two drills. You can use your previous drills too.
- You don’t have to stop. Decide on an exercise routine with drills from either sport and keep it up every day.