WDPE

The 2009-2010 school year is off to a very fast start in physical education.  This first post will be more of an overview regarding classes and reminders. We will give more information about grade level activities in future blogs.

Mrs. Alyson Carel and Mrs. Deb Hiestand are the physical education teachers at Woodland Elementary.  We started at Woodland when the building opened in 2002.  During the beginning of this school year (until October 23rd) we welcome our student teacher, Mr. Jermaine Guthrie.  Mr. Guthrie grew up in north Minneapolis and is in college at MSU Moorhead.  We hope he gains valuable teaching experience from the students and staff at Woodland!

Mrs. Carel and Mrs. Hiestand are team teaching grades 3 – 6. Most of the year classes in these grade levels will be combined and both of us will be collaborating to teach the double classes.  Occasionally during the year classes may be separated into small gym and big gym activities as needed.

For report card and scheduling purposes, Mrs. Carel has the following classes:

• 4 star
• K-AM (Morningstar and Richter)
• 1st  (Heer, Walz, Lien, Peek, Helms, Wagner)
• 3rd (Deans, Goodrich, Snell)
• 4th (Sawatzke, Gruber)
• 5th (Provart, Drake and 1/2 or Gute’s class)
• 6th (Tollefson, Landers)

Mrs. Hiestand’s classes include:

• All day K (Schulzetenberg)
• K-PM (Morningstart, Richter)
• 2nd (Housman, Levy, Bedford, Hodsdon, Lund, Halvorson)
• 3rd (Lee, Throndson)
• 4th (Ewing, Ness)
• 5th (Otto, Aguilar & 1/2 of Gute’s class)
• 6th (Wagenman, Miller)

Both of  us teach the DAPE students.

Here are some PE “reminders” that we reviewed the 1st daywith our PE students…

1. Wear tennis shoes to physical education every day.  Students cannot participate in class if they do not wear proper shoes.
2. If a student misses 2 PE classes in a row because of NOT wearing proper shoes, he or she will receive a white slip.
3. We accept a parent note, phone call or email if you would like your son or daughter to miss a PE class due to injury or recovering from illness. In most cases a doctor note is needed if a student needs to miss PE for more than 2 consecutive days.

Please feel free to contact us regarding any concerns or questions regarding your student’s participation in physical education. We look forward to a year of fun, fitness and learning!

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