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Bring Your Parent to P.E. 2023

2019 Take Your Parent to P.E. Week

Selfie Tag

2018Take Your Parent to P.E. Week

Selfie Tag

Thank you to all the parents who participated this week!

2018 3A 7th Grade Basketball state champions

2017 1A Softball State Champions

Studies show that Active Kids Do Better, so Illini Bluffs Elementary School has been working hard to ramp up physical education and physical activity for our students. Our efforts have been noticed, and we have been recognized with the 2016 Let’s Move! Active Schools National Award. We are on a mission to take our students from #0to60 with Active Schools!

 

Learn more about our commitment at www.letsmoveschools.org. 

ILLINI BLUFSS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL RECEIVES 2016 LET’S MOVE! ACTIVE SCHOOLS NATIONAL AWARD FOR HELPING STUDENTS GO FROM ZERO TO SIXTY – Let’s Move! Active Schools, part of First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! initiative dedicated to ensuring 60 minutes of physical activity a day is the norm in K-12 schools, honored Illini Bluffs Elementary School with the 2016 Let’s Move! Active Schools National Award for its outstanding efforts in creating an Active School environment.

 

The Let’s Move! Active Schools National Award is the nation’s top physical education and physical activity distinction for K-12 schools and celebrates a school’s commitment to providing students with at least 60 minutes a day of before, during and after school physical activity. Only 544 schools across the country achieved this prestigious honor in 2016.

 

Powered by a national collaborative of leading health, education and private sector organizations, Let’s Move! Active Schools equips schools with the resources, programs, professional development and grants to increase physical education and physical activity opportunities for students, and to cultivate an Active School environment.

 

Why are Active Schools so important? Because Active Kids Do Better. Regular physical activity not only helps kids stay healthy and strong, but it can also lead to: higher test scores; improved attendance; increased focus; better behavior in class; enhanced leadership skills; and a lifetime of healthy habits.

 

“We commend Illini Bluffs Elementary School's model work around enhancing physical education and physical activity opportunities and inspiring students to go from zero to sixty both in the classroom and in life,” said Charlene R. Burgeson, Let’s Move! Active Schools Executive Director.“ Illini Bluffs Elementary School is leading the way in this generation-changing movement that is transforming our nation’s schools into active and healthy hubs.”

 

To earn a Let’s Move! Active Schools National Award, a school must have met significant benchmarks in five areas: physical education; physical activity before and after school; physical activity during school; staff involvement; and family and community engagement.

 

As part of the Let’s Move! Active Schools National Award package, Illini Bluffs Elementary School received a large display banner, National Award certificate and congratulatory letter from the First Lady.

 

This school year, in celebration of the 60th Anniversary of the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports & Nutrition, Let’s Move! Active Schools is excited to celebrate its National Award schools and to help more students accelerate their journey to leading a healthy, active lifestyle. In support the Council’s #0to60 campaign, Let’s Move! Active Schools will provide school champions with continued information, resources, and inspiration needed to build healthier lives for future generations.

 

Find out more about Let’s Move! Active Schools at www.letsmoveschools.org

This Month in P.E.

Tiger Pride

2016 Softball State Championship

Sports Equipment Donation Request

The PE Department is in need of sports equipment. We are specifically looking for mini-basketballs, girls basketballs (for our small hands at the elementary school), Jr. footballs, bouncy balls, tennis balls, and any other fitness equipment that parents have laying around the house not being used. Do you have a piece of fitness equipment (treadmill, elliptical machine, free weights) in the basement that you don't use anymore? Our high school will take it! How about those extra basketballs your kids don't play with anymore? If it is in good shape, we will use it! Do you have an old soccer net not being used? We want it! Don't let your old equipment gather dust. Donate it to us and we will give it a good home!

Please send me an e-mail and I will contact you ASAP to arrange a time to pick up the equipment.

 

Thank you for your help!!!!

History

Sport stacking originated in the early 1980's in southern California and received national attention in 1990 on a segment of the "Tonight Show", with Johnny Carson. That was where it first captured the imagination of Bob Fox, who was then an elementary classroom teacher in Colorado.
Speed Stacks founder Bob Fox says, "When I first became passionate about sport stacking in 1995, a lot of people would hear about it and scratch their heads. Stacking a sport? The only way to explain it was to show them firsthand - sport stacking is truly something you have to see to believe! I absolutely love the challenge of turning skeptics into believers, and the list of stacking enthusiasts grows every day." 

Speed Stacks spreads nationally. In 1998, Bob was asked to present sport stacking to Texas. After a tremendous response Speed Stacks, Inc. 
was born as a small home business designed to promote sport stacking and be a resource to physical education teachers. And the sport continued to grow. Bob started traveling across the country to present stacking to fellow PE teachers, and in 2000, after 17 years of teaching, he decided to leave his school district to devote full time to Speed Stacks. The sport's popularity continues to grow exponentially. As of Summer-2007 more than 20,000 schools worldwide have a Speed Stacks program as part of their PE curriculum.  

What are the benefits of sport stacking? Kids don't need to be convinced about the benefits of sport stacking. They just plain love it (even your "way too cool for it" kids).  

For teachers and parents, we've always touted hand-eye coordination, quickness and ambidexterity. We now can substantiate those claims. A university study by Dr. Brian Udermann, currently at the University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse, confirms that stacking improves hand-eye coordination and reaction time by up to 30 percent.  

Sport stacking helps students develop bilateral proficiency equal performance on both sides of the body. By increasing bilateral proficiency, a 
student develops a greater percentage of the right side of the brain, which houses awareness, focus, creativity and rhythm. Stacking helps train the brain for sports and other activities where the use of both hands is important, such as playing a musical instrument or using the computer. Sequencing and patterning are also elements of sport stacking, which can help with reading and math skills. 

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