Warmup: Toe Touches and Walkouts

• Focus: Mobility and Flexibility

• Goals: Extending downward reach capability and increasing upper body strength

• Muscle Focus: Hamstrings, core upper body and arms

 

Academic Emphasis: Reading Comprehension

• General Discussion

• Identification and analysis of story elements: setting, characters, plot, themes and point of view

• Activity: Story Element Chart

 

Fitness Emphasis: Planks, Plank Jacks, Leg Lifts and Leg Laterals

• Focus: Flexibility and Agility

• Goals: Compound movements required integration and engagement of mind-body connection

• Muscle Focus: Hamstrings, core upper body and arms

 

Homework

• Fitness: Inchworms

• Academic: Continue reading while adding to Story Elements Chart