Academics
Lower School
Spaces and Places: "The Specials"
Fifth Grade

Health and Wellness

Instructor: Kim Franco

The health and wellness curriculum provides an opportunity for students to learn about healthy choices, developing fitness and motor skills that encourage healthy living. Topics on the importance of community, personal relationships/friendships, the physical and emotional changes during puberty and healthy individual choices are the focus for fifth graders.
 
Physical Education
HealthMindfulness
  • Movement Preparation Sessions (Dynamic Movements, Accelerations, Agility ladders and weaving, Mini Core Training)
  • Skill Based Multiple Sports-Develop proficiency in stability, fundamental movement and manipulative/sports skills and perform these skills in combinations
  • Physical activity-opportunity for enjoyment, challenge, and self-expression/Inclusive/Fun
  • Agility, Balance, Coordination and Speed
  • Dance/Rhythmic Activities
  • Team Building Initiatives and Challenges
  • Predict and Intercept
  • Body Position-Ready Positon/Return to Base
  • Fitness, Healthy lifestyle choices
  • Understand basic rules, tactics and strategy in games and refinement of sport specific skills.
  • Responsible personal and social behavior/Sportsmanship/Fair Play
  • Theme: World Cup Games/Olympics focus on perseverance, teamwork, goal setting, strategy, competition and fun
  • Some sports are: soccer, flag football, track, gymnastics, basketball, hockey, lacrosse
  • Injury Prevention and Safety
  • Illness Prevention
  • Growing up
  • Hygiene routines for puberty
  • Endocrine system/role of hormones
  • Hormone disorders
  • Biological differences between boys and girls
  • Responsibilities of maturing adolescents
    Decision-making in at-risk situations
    Social/emotional learning skills
    Genetic factors (heredity)
    Social awareness of differences
    Self-awareness of traits
    Refusal Skills
  • Practicing Mindfulness, Compassion, Gratitude, and Social-Emotional Skills
  • Activities and Non-competitive games for individuals and groups
  • Mindful Movements
  • Emotions and Thoughts
  • Compassion
  • Formal Mindful Practices and Medications
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Located in Englewood, New Jersey, Dwight-Englewood is a greater New York City area private school with a rigorous college prep curriculum for boys and girls in preschool through grade 12.