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Students Hold a Steady Pose

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Terrace

Fourth grade students at Terrace Elementary School learned about steadiness and balance in PE class this week.

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Two individuals, one wearing a green shirt and the other a pink shirt, are walking in a room with blue mats on the floor and a white wall in the background.
Two young women, one with long dark hair and the other with shorter blonde hair, are standing together in a room with white tiled walls and a blue frame in the background.

After warming up by running a quick lap around the gym, the students put their mats and equipment in place.

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Mr. Patenaude went over the learning objectives for the class, asking the students to help him define the words "steady" and "balance."

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After listening to the great answers the students came up with, he had the class practice some warm up poses first.

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For each of the warmups he had the students all try at the same time and they had to hold each pose for 10 seconds.

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He explained that this may be hard now but the more they do it the easier it becomes because you build the muscles to do the poses.

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Then they moved onto their first set of new poses.

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One student from each of the groups would hold the pose that Mr. Patenaude put up on the screen and had to hold it for 10 seconds.

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A young person in a white shirt and black pants is standing on a blue padded mat in what appears to be a gymnasium or training facility, with wooden walls and doors visible in the background.
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Then the other students in the group would try.

A young person in a blue shirt is performing a push-up exercise on a blue exercise mat in a room with wooden floors and walls.
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A person in a pink hoodie is performing a push-up exercise on a blue exercise mat in a room with white walls and orange traffic cones.

For each of the poses the students had two opportunities to try it out. They got harder as it went on.

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A person in a green jacket is standing on a blue mat in a gymnasium, with various sports equipment visible in the background.
A young person in a pink jacket is sitting on a blue exercise mat in a gymnasium-like setting with wooden walls and floors.

By the end of the class they finished the set of starter poses and look forward to moving onto the harder set next week.

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