One More Week of Hockey!

Hockey has been some of the students' favorite game in physical education.  A few weeks ago we started to learn how to dribble the puck and pass it to our partners.  Last week, we started playing games toward the end of the class and this week we will finish our hockey unit with more exciting games!  Below is a video of the fifth graders playing and more pictures are located on the "Heiskell Physical Education" page above.

PRESIDENTIAL FITNESS TEST

Please remind the children to get ready for the presidential fitness test

which will be held near the end of April before Olympic Day!

They will be tested on the following... 

1. Pushups in one minute (core strength)

2. Sit ups in one minute (chest strength)

3. The mile run (endurance)

4. Sit and reach (flexibility)

5. The shuttle run (speed)

The times and numbers necessary to recieve the presidential or national fitness award are located on the gym's bulletin board.  You can also click on the "Heiskell Physical Education" page above and then scroll down to find the information by age and gender. 

Pictures of Ships and Sailors

These are some of the different positions when calling for "Ships and Sailors".

Captains Coming

Meet Someone

Row Your Boat

Two Boats Rowing

Eat Together

Two Groups Eating Together

Starfish

 Two Starfish

 Dead Fish 

 Captains Coming 

Ameba Tag and Peanut Butter and Jelly Tag

Spring Break seems to be long gone, but the games that we played are not!  Whenever you have a large number of people in a group, see if they will play one of these two games. 

Ameba Tag is a great game to play to work on building team work.  When you have a large number of students holding hands, trying to tag one person without letting go becomes very difficult! 

After talking to one another in a small huddle, they must keep their bodies in a straight formation and try not to let go of each others hands while they chase and tag one other player.

When the line gets real long, it is very hard for everyone to turn around quickly.

Peanut Butter and Jelly Tag is another great game to work on shuffling skills.  In this game, three people are holding hands, two are "pieces of bread", with one person being the "peanut butter".  The fourth person, "jelly", has to try and run around the two "pieces of bread" to tag "peanut butter".  The students who are "two pieces of bread" must keep "jelly" away from "peanut butter"!  The "bread" must shuffle quickly left and right as the "jelly" tries to get around the "bread" to the "peanut butter".

Ships and Sailors

Ships and Sailors is a game that has turned into a favorite at the Heiskell School!  Ms. Boyd, our wonderful second grade teacher told me about the game last year and it was not until this month that I have really introduced the game to all of the children! 

Ships and sailors is a fast paced, thrilling game where there is much starting and stopping as well as a need for keen listening skills.  If the students are in the "CAPTAINS COMING" position, they are not allowed to move for any of the commands until the "caller" says "AT EASE!"

When in the "at ease" position, students follow each command given which include...
Meet someone/Greet someone consisting of two souls,
Row your boat - consisting of three souls sitting criss cross apple sauce one behind another,
Eat together - consisting of four souls sitting down "eatting" together,
Star Fish - consisting of five souls laying down with their head on the ground with all their feet together in the middle!  Sometimes there are six in a starfish and the one soul that the caller see's lay down the last is out.

There is also the call for "Hit the deck" which has everyone lay down on the "boat",
Dead Fish is when they flop onto their back and stick their tongue out and they must freeze,
Alive Fish is when they can wiggle on their backs,
Ships is when they run to a designated wall and Sailors is the other designated wall!

This game can be played with two people, but having a group of people makes the game more exciting! 
Maybe you can play with your family! 
Remember, when the captains coming, you can not move UNTIL they say, "At Ease!"

Do You Want To Know The Truth...???

Truth obviously is found in the Word of God, but it is also found by measuring distances and sizes. 
If I want to tell you the truth about how tall I am, I would measure myself and tell you five feet, ten and a half inches.  If I want to tell you how many ounces are in a cup, we know that the answer is eight ounces are in a cup.  If you want to know how much sugar is in a twelve ounce can of coke, keep reading... 

On the coke can label, it states that it contains thirty-nine grams.  If you empty out thirty-nine packets of sugar that have one gram each, you will see that it ALMOST fills a one-eight cup container.

The truth is, when you drink a soda, its like putting an eight of a cup of sugar in a can with some other crazy ingredients and putting it in our body, which belongs to God! 

Jelly has nearly sixteen grams in one or two tablespoons...
Measure it out with your children with gram packets of sugar and be amazed! 

Although the snow is gone, the memories remain. 

Praise be to the Lord for a most glorious beginning in 2011. 

May the Lord continue to wash our sins white as snow.  

I added a "page" which includes a number of pictures

that my sister took during the week of snow that we received! 

Please visit the page listed above to see some nice pictures. 

CLEANING

Idols are everywhere in the United States.  Idols are considered to be people, places or things that we give more time to than we do the LORD Himself.  There also can be false idols in homes.  Wooden totem poles can represent false gods of other nations.  Trinkets and gadgets, gizmos and fabric from other places that have been cursed can be brought in and can cause a disturbance in your household. 

Do you know where everything has come from in your house?  Are there things from previous generations that have been passed down that you do not know about?  Has a family friend or co-worker in ignorance given you something that is not Holy or pleasing to the Lord?

In the book of 2nd Chronicles chapter 29, there is a description of people cleansing the house of the Lord. 
Specifically in verse 15... ¹⁵And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words of the LORD, to cleanse the house of the LORD."

I know my house is not a church buildling, but it is a place of gathering to worship the Lord our God, Jesus Christ.  Our house has been given to us by God, and He owns all things. (Psalm 24:1)  We worship here in Spirit and in Truth (John 4:24) and Jesus is in our midst, as we gather in His name. 

Over this Christmas break, we went through our outside storage place, (which use to be my dads office!) into the attic, the basement and closets, as well as discerning if there was anything that was not pleasing to the Lord in our house.  It was good to cleanse our property and throw away some things.  After all, there is a time to keep and a time to throw away! 

May the Holy Spirit lead you in showing you things that may not be necessary in your house hold.
Our God is a Holy God, righteous and true altogether. 

May His grace, His mercy, His knowledge, His wisdom and His truth be added unto you, in Jesus name.

Merry 2011!