Ms. Kilgore PE

Welcome to my first blog post in quite some time! I've been doing a lot of reaching outside of my comfort zone this year and have tried a lot of new things. Some big, some litte. Some worked, some didn't. But as I have stolen most of these ideas from other PE teachers, I'd like to put my experiences out there for other teachers to steal as well! First of all, I am a PE teacher at a high school of about 500 students. I mainly teach Freshmen PE, so I have every freshmen student in our building for PE class. My class sizes vary from 12-33 students. I do have a small class set of Fitness for Life textbooks to use to supplement what I am teaching throughout the year. I also have access to a large gymnasium, small gymnasium, matroom, and weightroom. Second, I am also the Student Council advisor, a wife, a mother of two, and casual runner. So, I definitely keep busy outside of normal work hours!

Sepak Takraw is a net game played mostly in countries in Southeast Asia region. It is similar to volleyball but played mostly with your feet, thus the name "kick volleyball". Players may also use any parts of their body except arms and hands (similar to soccer). I also like to compare some of the skills used to hacky sack. Here  is a good introductory video from the official website. Here is video of my students playing with some modifications. Here is a link to some officials rules with some official terminology. For PE purposes, we modify the rules and equipment quite a bit to allow for greater success. Here are some of the modifications I make: 1. Ball: While I do have the official sepak takraw balls. I have found that a very small amount of my students will master the skills needed to use it. The official balls are plastic and do travel quickly. Therefore, we use 5 1/2 inch foam, rough-skin dodgeballs.  2. Net : The first day we lower the net to pickleball ...