Chess is considered a sport  by the international olympic comittee. When playing chess we have to train our brain to develope many intellectual abilities, see connection between movements of your pieces and use memory skills to remember hypothesis. Creative problem solving also contribute to the level of an individual's chess ability. This sport helps us with our ability to concentrate, because you have to be focus on your thoughts to make the best possible movement.

Have a look at these images that explain us how to move the pieces.

Ater that, click on the link to go on online games.

PLAY ONLINE CHESS!

Hello everyone!

I am very glad to see you all again after summer hollidays and share with you another year. This is my second course in Esperanza school and as I said last september I am really proud of be working as a teacher, and even more Physical education, which is my favourite subject. I enjoy a lot doing every kind of sport, such as cycling, running, basketball, skiing, swimming, walking in the mountain or tennis padel among others.

I practice physical activities just for pleasure and health, I love to compete as well, provided that it does not turn into something very demanding. My wish is to convey all positive values of doing physical excercise and sports to my students, like friendship, cooperation, health, respect to rules, understanding how our body works, honesty, perseverance to reach an objective, patience, and also development of coordination and fitness.

Esperanza school is great, I feel very comfortable here. We have great facilities, really good people, and of course the students, who are awesome, they learn very fast. In september we have been doing some physical tests to see how we improve throughout the year.

Finally, I show you some pictures of myself last summer.

See you in the playground!!!  ;)

click on the image to watch a video about how to build great indiacas with ballons and plastic bags.

LINK OF THE MEETING: 

https://us05web.zoom.us/j/4584949154?pwd=VUVyR1RCNit4N1p4MGRrbTJDa1dSZz09

ID OF THE MEETING: 

458 494 9154 

ACCES CODE: 

5E5WJw 

TWO WEEKS AGO WE PRACTICED BASKETBALL AT SCHOOL.

TAKE A LOOK AT THE PRESENTATION AND ANSWER CORRECTLY THE QUESTIONS AT THE END.

OBLIGATORY ACTIVITY FOR 3RD AND 4TH GRADE.

DEADLINE: 23 RD OF MAY.

Last videoconferences we have practised these kind of excercises. Try out to have fun with your family and friends practising them. They improve physical skills, coordination and balance between left and right brain.

- BRAIN GYM EXCERCISES FIRST VIDEO.

- BRAIN GYM EXCERCISES SECOND VIDEO.

Hi students,

I would like to know your opinion of how you feel about P.E.

Click on your group to complete the form. It is a valuable information for me.

Remember to be AS HONEST AS POSSIBLE.

Thank you very much !!!

What to do when a little accident practising physical activity happens? is it always same procedure? 

Here are examples of some common ones that we, despite being children, must know.

CLICK HERE AND TAKE A LOOK !!

The kids have been rehearsing a dance for the last three weeks. Here are the outcomes of their work.

(click on the link to watch video)

I hope you like it!

Here are some DIY (do it yourself) materials for P.E.

It is likely that in the future we will build one of them, by the moment they are just ideas. Take a look at them and let me know which one you like the most next week. 

(click on the image to watch video)

Physical education is a great subject. It serves us to improve our physical conditions, socialise, stay healthy, have fun, learn new concepts,...

One of the contents of physical education is dancing. Dancing has a lot of benefits, for instance:

- Is a way  to know our body better, improve our balance and corporal schema, because we make movements that we have to control and coordinate them among different parts of our body.

- Improves our body lenguage, which is the ability to convey messages with the movement of our arms and legs. According to the melody , we have to move fast or slow, or is it similar when you dance rock to classical music?

- Makes our attention spam and concentration better, because we have to be focused on a melody.

- Improves our self-discipline , because learning a coreography implies effort, and we have to keep repeating it many times until we get it right.

- Through coordination when we dance, we develope a sense of correct posture which is good for our spine and avoid backache.

Finally, dancing is doing physical activity and only for that fulfils all benefits said at the beginning. So, everybody shake your hips, move your arms, stamp your feet, snap your fingers ,clap your hands, and....

DISCOVER THE FUN OF DANCING!

Last week we have been practicing skipping rope.

Skipping rope is a very good excercise to develope our coordination of arms and legs, as well as our basic physical conditions.

Some of you take a great effort to coordinate movements. 

As usually when you learn something, at the beginning it is very physically demanding, time consuming and implies a lot of energy.

However, once you worked with perseverance to learn it, it becomes easy , less time consuming and great fun.

So, keep it up , and practice, practice, practice!

Take a look at this video to see what is possible. 

IF THERE IS A POPULAR SPORTMAN THAT I LOOK UP TO , THAT IS RAFA NADAL, NOT ONLY BECAUSE HOW HE PLAYS, BUT ALSO BECAUSE OF HIS FAIRPLAYNESS IN AND OUT OF THE COURT, BUT...

WHAT IS FAIR PLAY? 

FAIR PLAY IS SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT IN SPORTS, GAMES, PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND IN LIFE.

YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE, CLICK  HERE AND TAKE A LOOK.

HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A TABLE TENNIS GAME ?

IT IS AMAZING HOW FAST THE TABLE TENNIS PLAYERS CAN HIT THE BALL !!!

HAVE A LOOK AT THIS PRESENTATION, DO THE ACTIVITY AT THE END AND SEND IT TO ME.

OBLIGATORY ACTIVITY FOR 3RD AND 4TH GRADE.

DEADLINE : 28TH OF FEBRUARY.

Here is a presentation about locomotor system.

REMEMBER to do the activity after having read all the presentation and send it to me.

DEADLINE: 28th of february.

(obligatory activity for 3rd and 4th grade)

CLICK HERE!

Many times we do not know how to call the materials in our  sessions. For not happening that again...

FIRST:

have a look at THIS WORKSHEET.

SECOND:

do this ACTIVITY GAME.

Hello my dear students of first grade,

Take a look at these challenges (retos) and before next monday the 18th of january try to practise them.

- challenge one: ''ball to basket on the mat''.

- challenge two: ''stand up with roll on top of the head''.

- challenge three: ''the spider transportation''.

- challenge four: ''ball on tray across obstacles''.

- challenge five: ''make a tower''.

I hope you like it!

There are a lot of winter sports that can be done on snow . Here in Spain, we do not practise them much because of the weather. However, in other countries such as Norway they are very popular.

HERE is a video about them.

After the video, CLICK HERE to do the activity about winter sports. 

(IMPORTANTE: al terminar la ficha le dais a ''enviar las respuestas a mi profesor'' y os pedirá que pongais correo del profesor . Ahí hay que poner: guillermo.ballestero1@gmail.com) (Actividad para los cursos: 2º, 3º y 4º).

This term we are going to practise orienteering at school. Here I leave you a little excercise to start off. (obligatory activity for 4th graders)

FIRST:

here you have a presentation with basic concepts. Read the presentation.

SECOND:

complete this test and send it to me.

DEADLINE:

28th of february

Do you imagine Pau Gasol doing rhythmic gymnastics ? Messi boxing? or Rafa Nadal cycling?

Their fitness is different. For every sport we need a specific trainning. Here you can see what are the four types of sports and physical activities. Which one do you like most??

CLICK HERE!!!

Last week we practised excercises related with balance. There are many elements that are involved in us keeping the balance . Have a look to the presentation below.

Click HERE to see the presentation about balance:

FILL UP THIS QUESTIONNAIRE.

PRESS HERE

GOOD LUCK!

It is important for us to know what is heart rate and how to check it. Here you have some info about that:

- Press here to read the document with information about heart rate.

- Press here to read the questions to answer about heart rate (only 4th grade B)

- Press here to watch the video about how to check the heart rate.

Juggling is a very important excercise because it improves a lot our coordination, and also it is a way to develope our laterality, which means the ability to use both parts of our body, for example right and left arm.

Like most of the things at the begining, it is difficult and requires a lot of effort to learn it, but once you automate the movements it is great fun, and every time you practice it, you enjoy.

Some of you has been doing juggling with only one ball last week. If you want to keep practising at home about this interesting activity, here I leave you some videos. I really recomend to continue practising on your own. Enjoy!

Here I leave you a clue (una pista) of some activities about spacing (percepcion y vision espacial) that we are going to practise during the following week.

Im sure you will be able to do it very good!

Last two weeks along with the next, we are doing activities related with body awareness. That is excercises in which the student has to coordinate movements of different parts of his body. We practised this by different means such as work-out circuits.

Also, every day we do a warm-up (calentamiento), which starts with running and jogging around the playground. In the main part of the lesson, we usually practise motor games like the one of ''corchopanes'' and usually, if we have time enough, we end up with a cool-down activity such as ''pistolero'' or ''director de orquesta''.

Developing our coordination and self awareness of all parts of our body is very important to get better results in every sport.

I leave you below a video of different circuits:

video.

Have a look at this image:

take a look at this video as well , about warming up , enjoy:

Press here to watch an example of some warming up excercises. 

REEDME!!! 

Press here to go online games about P.E.