Dealing with high energy kid with cuts to PE

[Anonymous]

3 sports per season per kid sounds unreasonable, to put it mildly. What does that look like every week?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:you have PE 5x a week??? I have never heard of that , at least in most schools. It usually twice.

I’ve taught in quite a few schools, public and private. None has had PE more than once a week.

Go to school early so he can run off some energy on the playground. That’s what I did with my son when he was in ES.

Dp. One of my kids had PE three times a week. We moved, and the others now have it twice a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:you have PE 5x a week??? I have never heard of that , at least in most schools. It usually twice.

I’ve taught in quite a few schools, public and private. None has had PE more than once a week. [u]

Go to school early so he can run off some energy on the playground. That’s what I did with my son when he was in ES.

Wow, I wonder if that is part of our problem as a society / country / ed system. Did there used to be PE more often? I know kids used to play outside more on their own.

I only had PE once a week. The other days were art, music, computer lab, Spanish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:you have PE 5x a week??? I have never heard of that , at least in most schools. It usually twice.

I’ve taught in quite a few schools, public and private. None has had PE more than once a week.

Go to school early so he can run off some energy on the playground. That’s what I did with my son when he was in ES.

Wow, really? I guess I don't know any different, but DS has PE either 2 or 3 times a week in a Midwest public school. That will continue into middle school too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:3 sports per season per kid sounds unreasonable, to put it mildly. What does that look like every week?

Kids get home from school and eat a heavy snack/light dinner. I drop them at their practices and walk the dog/make dinner while they are gone. Either I or DH picks them up, then they eat more and shower, reading and bedtime. Homework is in the morning when their brains are fresh (they are at a late bell school and don’t start until 9:20). Then they walk to school, sometimes leave 20 mins earlier and play basketball on the playground or play in the woods with friends.

You’ll find many kids of this personality type/energy level in travel sports at this age.

[Anonymous]

Of course you should have him walk to and from school — this is the easiest way to build more activity into the day.

Get a mini trampoline and have him bounce before breakfast. Give him a laundry basket loaded with heavy things to carry around the house — he can take towels to and from the laundry, bring cans to the pantry, carry shoes from front door to bedrooms, etc. Ask his teachers to consider him if they need an errand runner — bringing forms to the office, picking up the jacket the teacher “forgot” in the art room, etc. Ask whether he could use some sort of wiggle seat in class to help channel the impulse to move.

And for God’s sake, enroll him in something active instead of a building project where he needs to be careful and methodical. That sounds like a disaster right now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:you have PE 5x a week??? I have never heard of that , at least in most schools. It usually twice.

I’ve taught in quite a few schools, public and private. None has had PE more than once a week. [u]

Go to school early so he can run off some energy on the playground. That’s what I did with my son when he was in ES.

Wow, I wonder if that is part of our problem as a society / country / ed system. Did there used to be PE more often? I know kids used to play outside more on their own.

I only had PE once a week. The other days were art, music, computer lab, Spanish.

My kids have PE, art, library, music and counseling. I personally would cut out library and counseling to give kids more PE and I want Spanish. Music isn’t like I had either. Kids don’t learn to play instruments or have scales until middle school I guess. As someone who speaks multiple languages and also played instruments, those are languages and need to be learned younger.

[Anonymous]

Recess is more important than PE IMO. They really need at least 2 recesses through elementary school, ideally 3 (well, ideally it would be like Finland where they would be outside half the time or something, but I mean 'ideally' within the bounds of what's considered normal in the US). In our state (midwest) PE has to every other day in middle school, but once a week in elementary- bc recess and unstructured play is what matters more when they were are younger.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:you have PE 5x a week??? I have never heard of that , at least in most schools. It usually twice.

Private schools have it every day. Whole child development and all that . . .

[Anonymous]

Red Bull?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:you have PE 5x a week??? I have never heard of that , at least in most schools. It usually twice.

I’ve taught in quite a few schools, public and private. None has had PE more than once a week.

Go to school early so he can run off some energy on the playground. That’s what I did with my son when he was in ES.

Our school has PE 2x wk, Music&Motor (movement with music) 2x per wk, Spark time every, and 2 recesses per day. Cutting back on PE just needs to be balanced in another way for kids to move.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:you have PE 5x a week??? I have never heard of that , at least in most schools. It usually twice.

I’ve taught in quite a few schools, public and private. None has had PE more than once a week.

Go to school early so he can run off some energy on the playground. That’s what I did with my son when he was in ES.

Our school has PE 2x wk, Music&Motor (movement with music) 2x per wk, Spark time every, and 2 recesses per day. Cutting back on PE just needs to be balanced in another way for kids to move.

What is spark?

[Anonymous]

Go on a 10 mile run at 5am every morning.