Balance! Balance! Balance! and Don't Fall Down

Funded Nov 30, 2022

My name is Christine Sidman and I'm the Physical Education teacher at P373R in Staten Island, New York. On behalf of myself and students here at P373R, we just want to thank you for your generous support and donation to our "Balance! Balance! Balance! and Don't Fall Down!" project. Your generous donation of balancing equipment is helping our students improve not only their balancing skills but also improving their concentration, focus on posture, control eye movements, and visually process information to facilitate reading and writing.

The students here at P373R love the balancing buckets and beams. The students were very excited to see the new balancing equipment. Since receiving the balancing equipment, we started an obstacle course unit in Physical Education. During the lesson, students ask if they can rearrange the equipment to make it more challenging. Some students make a zig zag pattern where others make a circle. One student said "This is so much fun, we can make the buckets close together or far apart."

Our obstacle course is now a mobile obstacle course. Not only is the unit being taught in the Gym, it is used also in the classrooms when the gym is not available. We also use the balance beams and buckets outside in the schoolyard.

Again, thank you for your generous support in our efforts to play and complete the Obstacle Course Unit at the elementary level.”

With gratitude,

Mrs. Sidman