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LeapStart at Oakridge

LeapStart at Oakridge

FIFA 2014 Highlights

CONTENTSFROM THE FOUNDER’S DESK

July2014 FitKids Education and Training

The FitKids family wishes all the students of Oakridge School for a wonderful start to the new academic year. As students prepare for the year ahead, there must be a lot of excitement, enthusiasm and anticipation of things to come and unfurl. At FitKids, this is also an exciting time for us as we prepare to take your Physical Education experience higher by another level and are working towards ensuring the same.

As the year starts, we realize that each student has di�erent goals for the upcoming year, whether it’s to start playing a game this year, get an “A” in a subject or run 5km in 5 minutes. Given the football fever, I would like to accentuate on the importance on S.M.A.R.T goals. So, what is an S.M.A.R.T goal? S.M.A.R.T is an abbreviation for – Speci�c, Measurable, Attainable, Recorded, and Time-bound. When you �nalize on your goals for this year, write them! Below your goal write down how you are going to attain it, measure it and what is the time you have set yourself to achieve it. As sports and physical education specialists, we �rmly believe that every goal should start with a vision, start with a dream, and work your tail o� to get there. This is a S.M.A.R.T goal!Talking about goals and sports, Oakridge students will have Basketball, Football and Badminton tournaments to look forward to from LeapStart. All these tournaments will be held at a national level with schools from multiple cities competing for top honors. These competitions will o�er a great opportunity for students to compete against teams from other regions, which goes a long way in helping gauge your skills while also enabling one to understand the di�erent approach and strategies that teams from other regions use.

We cherish the wonderful relationship we share with Oakridge and its students and are sure that the year ahead will be exciting and sporty for all of us!

Dev Roy

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Soccer:This is the world’s most popular sport! Played by almost everyone who kicks a ball, this unit is designed to further the skills of students to further enhance or just fundamentally introduce the game. Students will learn about ball-handling, dribbling, passing, receiving and shooting. Activities in this unit follow a high-activity skill progression, designed to include and challenge the student’s physical skills, while maintaining enjoyable, health-promoting oderate-to-vigorous physical activity during class. Skills covered:Dribbling, passing, receiving, ball handling, co-ordintion, team-work, cardio and respiratory endurance

Building a foundation:This unit focuses on developing behavioral expectation, class management (how the children behave in the class), the 8 locomotor skills, spatial awareness, and fundamentals of movements. Skills covered:Walking, running, jumping, skipping, hopping, leaping, side-sliding, galloping, personal space, general space, tempo, levels, directions and pathways

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Kicking and trapping:This unit introduces the students to fundamentals of kicking and controlling a ball with their feet. This unit lays the foundation for the game of Soccer. Skills covered:Dribbling, trapping, understanding the fundamentals of moving a ball with the feet, use of all the surfaces of the feet to accelerate and control the ball

Building blocks:Building Blocks establishes class environment, behavioral expectations of children, management and organization protocols. This introductory unit teaches principles that provide the foundation of physical development of the preschool child.Some of the motor development concepts addressed include body and spatial awareness, locomotor and non-locomotor skills, directionality and pathways, levels, and tempos. To enhance their social and personal development, children learn to follow directions, share, cooperate, take turns, and experience personal success through movement in a group setting. Skills covered:Non-locomotor movement exploration, locomotor movement exploration, levels, pathways, tempos, directions, relationships, behavioral expectations, spatial orientation, color recognition, creative imagery, body part identification, auditory discrimination, visual discrimination, creative expression, imaginary play, motor planning

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FIFA 2014 HIGHLIGHTS

Suarez leaves his mark: Luis SuarezUruguay's Luis Suarez received a four-month ban from FIFA after biting Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini.Suarez already had the nickname "The Cannibal" before this World Cup. While playing for club teams in Europe he was suspended twice for biting opponents, yet he did it again in the final game of group play in Brazil, sinking his teeth into the shoulder of Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini. Uruguay won the game to advance to the knockout phase, but it did so without Suarez, who received the longest suspension for an on-field incident in World Cup history: a four-month ban from all soccer activities.

Brazil and the boo birdsThe Brazilian team, the betting favorite to win the tournament, didn't even get a bronze medal. The last time the country played host to a World Cup, in 1950, its national team lost the final at Rio de Janeiro's Maracana Stadium. So this time around the national team was told second place just wouldn't do and the players complied, finishing fourth.

FIFA discovers America – and Costa RicaCosta Rica had made it out of the first round just once in its history, and in Brazil it came without a hopeof reaching the quarterfinals. But the Central Americans won their group, beating former world champions Uruguay, Italy and England, then eliminated Greece on penalty kicks before falling in the quarterfinals in a penalty-kick shootout with the Netherlands. That last game will go into the record books as a draw, though, meaning Costa Rica was unbeaten in this World Cup.

Howard's savesU.S. goalie Tim Howard turned in a performance for the ages in his team's overtime loss to Belgium, making 16 saves, the most in a World Cup game since FIFA began tracking the statistic. Unfortunately for Howard, two of Belgium's 38 shots slipped past him and his U.S. teammates could answer with just one goal, sending the Americans home one game into the knockout phase for the second consecutive World Cup..Goooooooaaaalllllllllll!And speaking of goals there were a lot of goals — a record-tying 171, in fact, in this tournament. They came both early (Clint Dempsey scored 30 seconds into the U.S. opener with Ghana) and late (Algeria Abdelmoumene Djabou scored 121 minutes into his team's loss to Germany). Five players even netted goals against their own team, including Brazil's Marcelo, who scored the first goal of the tournament for his Croatian opponents.

SoccerUnit description: This is the World’s most popular sport! Played by almost everyone who kicks a ball, this unit is