Sled races today with kinder! How many snowballs can you collect for your team before they’re all gone? Ridge Family Center for Learning #PhysEd

We’re working on our approach, technique, and learning how to keep score in bowling in #physed! Ridge Family Center for Learning

Many of our 3rd graders are trying pickleball for the first time! Great to see students embrace trying new skills + games! Love the sportsmanship with a secret paddle handshake too! #PhysEd Ridge Family Center for Learning

Introducing individual and dual sports to 2nd grade with some Slam Ball. We discussed how teamwork and different strategies can make us successful!

Continuing our dual sport unit with some team air hockey! We compared and contrasted strategies we used in previous activities!

Amazing Alphabet! Each round starts w/ a category (animals, foods, longest word, etc) Throw/roll the letter dice + each player on your team thinks of a word that starts with the letter, + writes it down. Awesome creativity and collaboration from our 2nd graders! Ridge Family Center for Learning #PhysEd

After honing in our stick handling, passing, shooting, + defensive skills, we’re onto some floor hockey games! Students are experiencing the different positions and working out offensive + defensive strategies! Next we’ll wear pedometers while we play to track # of steps/game!

Putting some different jump roping skills we’ve practiced to the test today! Ss chose their method of jumping, while adding the # of total jumps for the team! Great teamwork and encouragement from our groups today in PE! Always helps to have some motivational jumping music too!

Introduction to Strikerball using lollipop paddles with first grade! We discussed strategies for defending and worked on our striking skills!

Maybe you’ve heard of Minute to Win It…These challenges took a little more time, so we call this 101 to Get It Done! Our team-based 101-second challenges included balancing foam noodles, cone flipping, a pedometer challenge, dice stacking, and more! Ridge Family Center for Learning #PhysEd

Today's the day! Stop by Ridge Family Center for Learning from 4:30-6:30 p.m. and get yourself and the kids some delicious Kona Ice. You'll be doing us and yourself a favor :)

The FTO was sooo happy to treat the Ridge Raptors to Kona Ice as part of the Field Day activities. We’ve had such a great day today! We hope our students feel the same. Go Raptors Go!!! 💚💚💚 Ridge Family Center for Learning CCSD59 #D59Learns #D59Cares

Field Day Ridge Family Center for Learning! What a great day! Thanks to our staff and volunteers for making it great day for our students! Shout out to Ridge FTO for providing Kona Ice for our students and staff in the afternoon as well!

Can’t wait for Back to Football Friday this week! A great way to encourage students to stay active and gear up for football season! Here’s a preview of some of the activity stations! Ridge Family Center for Learning Chicago Bears Fuel Up to Play 60

Are you ready for some football?!?! 🏈🏈🏈 We experienced the skills, drills, & thrills this morning during Back To Football Friday 🎉🎉🎉... #ShiningRaptors

I’d like to extend a huge shout out to some student-athletes from Dan DeBoeuf + PHSKnightsFlagFootball who volunteered their time at Ridge Family Center for Learning’s Fuel Up Night! Such great role models for our students! Thanks for dedicating your time to the community and promoting a healthy lifestyle!