Bones and Muscles

Dear Parents,

 

This year in physical education classes, 4th and 5th grade students will have the opportunity to use heart rate monitors. Heart rate monitors provide immediate feedback about the training intensity for each student, as well as for the teacher. A heart rate transmitter is worn around the chest, and the heart rate monitor receives heart rate information wirelessly from the heart rate transmitter. The heart rate monitor displays and records this heart rate data.

 

The invaluable information that each heart rate monitor provides students the opportunity to learn to exercise according to their individual level. With the help of heart rate monitors, our students will now be given credit for doing their personal best, and they will be exercising according to what is safe for their level. Heart rate summaries from each physical education class will be recorded for all students wearing a heart rate monitor. Students will now have documented data that proves exercise is truly an individual experience, and that their efforts in physical education class do count.