Integrating Jump Rope for Heart into your PE Program

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Integrating Jump Rope for Heart into your PE
Program
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Presenters

• Pat Jones Stanwood Elementary
• Hempfield Area School District
• JRFH 10 years, Jump Rope
  Club 6
• years
• Colleen Wegimont Oak Ridge Elementary
• Souderton School District
• JRFH 17 years

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• How many have held a Jump or Hoops for Heart?

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5th Grade

• Design a partner routine (assessment)
• Short rope
• Long rope, double-dutch
• Jump bands
• Partner ropes
• Skip its (new option)
• 6 skills and at least half need to be jumping
  skills

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4th grade

• Design a routine (assessment)
• Solo
• 5-6 jump rope skills
• Long rope skills
• Triangle, Double-dutch
• Jump bands

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3rd grade

• Expand short rope skills
• Demonstrate 4 jump rope skills (assessment)
• Long rope
• Entering, exiting
• Jumping skills in the rope
• Jump bands, enders jumper
• Double-dutch turning

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2nd grade

• Basic short rope skills
• Jump rope critical elements
• Long rope
• Turning
• Entering, exiting
• Jump bands
• Enders jumping together
• Jumper inside bands

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1st grade

• Short rope
• Rope selection
• Tall body
• Wrist turn vs arm turning
• Soft landings
• Non-jumping and jumping
• Ocean waves
• Snake
• Jump the river
• Skin the cat
• Hopscotch
• Vertical and horizontal jumping
• Long rope, teacher assisted
• Hula hoop jumping

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Kindergarten

• Explore jumping activities
• Jump activities using a variety of take off and
  landings
• Snake
• Hoop jumping
• Skin the cat
• Jump over low obstacles
• Hopscotch patterns
• Short rope
• Rope selection
• Non-jumping skills
• Basic jump
• Long rope, teacher assisted

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JRFH committee

• 4-6 parents
• Suggested duties
• Money, data entry, spreadsheet day of JRFH
• Volunteer procurement
• PR, photographer
• Snacks
• After event, sort thank you gifts and put
  together gift bags
• Our PTA budgets money for JRFH
• snacks and treats
• Awards
• Approx. 300

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Stanwood Elementary

• Build the excitement in Physical Education
• Jump rope curriculum in K-5 classes
• Why do we do JRFH?
• 100 Penny day-Kick off
• Heart Health Announcements
• Distribution of JRFH materials
• Honor Wall
• Stanwood is Heart Smart
• Thank you gifts
• Jump Rope Club 3-5
• Online Fundraising

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Community Involvement

• Area restaurants
• Hoss/Pizza Hut/Brusters Ice Cream
• 20
• Community nights - coupons
• AHA has a list of companies
• Matching donations
• Local companies

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Faculty Events

• Food Fest Thursdays (2 donation)
• Soup Day
• Breakfast
• Appetizer or Salad Day
• Ethnic food
• Fat Tuesday desserts
• Dress Down Week week of JRFH (10 donation)
• Head shaving fundraiser

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JRFH Grades 3-5

• Students do JRFH instead of specialists classes
• JRFH CD
• Be Cool visit (local mascot)
• Open gym stations set up
• Short rope
• Long rope, double-dutch
• Jump the shot
• Jump bands
• Vertical jump
• Skip its
• Challenge stations

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Challenges

• Blindfolded jumping
• Speed jumping
• Front cross jumping
• Backward jumping
• Partner challenges
• Face to face, 1 rope
• Side by side, 2 ropes
• Ribbons awarded to the winners in each grade level

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JRFH Grades K-2

• Be Cool visit (local mascot)
• Stations
• Short rope, hula hoops
• Long rope, adult turned
• Skin the cat
• Snake pit
• Vertical jump
• Hopscotch
• Jump the shot
• Obstacle (low) jump, limbo
• Jump the river, high water/low water

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Wrap up assembly

• Held a month after the event
• Distribute awards
• Top fund raiser, trophy
• Challenge winners, ribbons
• Drawing for gift bags (1 ticket for every 10)
• Chinese auction
• Classroom winners, extra PE class
• Head shaving
• Volleyball game
• Teachers v 5th grade

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• Questions
• Comments
• Idea sharing