Kindergarten PE Colorado Standards

Movement Competence and Understanding

Demonstrate body and spatial awareness through movement.

Travel within a large group without bumping into others or falling while using a variety of locomotor skills.

Demonstrate contrasts between slow and fast speeds while using locomotor skills.

Travel in straight, curved, and zigzag pathways.

Move in opposition and alternately.

Move synchronously with others.

Participate in chase-and-flee activities that include various spatial relationships.

Jump over a stationary rope several times in succession using forward-andback and side-to-side movement patterns.

Locate and move the major parts of the body.

Move specified body parts in response to a variety of sensory cues such as auditory or visual.

Identify body planes such as front, back, and side.

Create shapes at high, medium, and low levels by using hands, arms, torso, feet, and legs in a variety of combinations.

Physical and Personal Wellness

Understand that physical activity increases the heart rate, making the heart stronger.

Identify the heart rate as an indicator of physical activity.

Sustain physical activity for short periods of time.

Identify activities that will increase the heart rate.

Social Emotional Wellness

Demonstrate respect for self, others, and equipment.

Demonstrate the characteristics of sharing.

Identify feelings that result from participation in physical activity.

Participate as a leader and follower.

Help to manage equipment.

Play without interfering with others.

Demonstrate the ability to follow directions.

Start and stop on an auditory and visual signal.

Follow a simple series of instructions for an activity

Speak at appropriate times.

Follow established class protocols.

Prevention and Risk Management

Apply safe practices, rules, and procedures.

Demonstrate safety awareness when using materials.

Participate in activity without colliding into other students, objects, and surroundings.

Identify proper footwear for physical education.