September 10-14

Hi Everyone,

I hope you are all having an amazing weekend!

This past week we learned all about the STARS program. If the students get 20 STARS by the end of the week - They get "Fun Friday" which is a game of their choice.

S-SPORTSMANSHIP

T-TEAMWORK

A-ATTITUDE

R-RESPECT

S-SAFETY

JK - In JK we did some GoNoodle games and activities in the classroom to get the kids comfortable with me, the other students, and moving our bodies.

We are learning about rules in gym and how we follow instructions from Ms. Yustin

SK - We played lots of our games from last year so the kids could get familiar with the rules again! We played follow the leader so the kids could get familiar with different moves we do in the gym!

Grade 1 - We played Mission Impossible, Pacman Tag, Freezedance, Ship to Shore!

Grade 2 - We played Dodgeball and did our cross country try outs!

Grade 3 - Health - We learned about the 5 food groups, did a cross word puzzle finding words and categorizing it.
Games - We played "Mission Impossible" Dodgeball, and regular dodgeball! The kids also wanted to play Mission Impossible tag!

Have a great week and I will update you next week :)

Below are some pictures.

Welcome Post

Good Afternoon Everyone,

It was such a pleasure to meet and see a lot of you on Monday evening!

For those of you who don't know me, my name is Alexandra Yustin and this is my second year at SJA teaching the PYP Physical Education program.
I have a passion for athletics, sports, staying active and healthy, and I can't wait to share my passion with the SJA community this year.
I will be teaching JK - Grade 3 PE and Health everyday and I am also the Lunch Coordinator.

A bit about myself: I went to Brock University for my Bachelor of Arts in Child Psychology and I have a Bachelor of Education in Primary/Junior specializing in the ELKP Inquiry Based Kindergarten program.
Once I was done teachers college, I was hired as an elementary physical education and math teacher at Pickering College.
The following year, I decided to go back to school at night time and get my Montessori Kindergarten diploma and taught the Montessori program during the day.
Last year the opportunity came for me to teach PE here at SJA and I couldn't wait to be back teaching my passion of Phys Ed.
In May I started my Masters Degree in Educational Leadership focusing on Leadership in Learning.

I can't wait to work with all of you this year and check out my blog weekly to see the cutest pictures of your kids playing in PE!

Kindest Regards,
Alexandra Yustin

May 28 - June 1

Hi Everyone,

I'm so happy we had such a fantastic Track and Field Day!
Mr. Beresford and I will have all the results for the Top 3 and kids who will be coming with us to the Maples this Thursday!

Here are some pictures from the week! I was pretty busy and wasn't able to take as many pictures as I wanted to of the Track and Field day!

Have a great week.