Hello! I am Mr. Zimmer and so excited to be part of the staff as the physical education teacher at St. Ann School. I have taught health & physical education and coached boys’ and girls’ soccer, baseball, and lacrosse at the K-12 grade level in the North Brunswick Township School District (NJ) and at McCorristin Catholic High School (Hamilton Township, NJ). I graduated from Davis & Elkins College (WV) with a B.S. degree in health & physical education, along with earning my Master’s Degree in health & physical education from Trenton State College (The College of New Jersey). I’ve also earned my Supervisor’s Certification from Thomas Edison State College. I enjoy reading, art; walking my three dogs; watching Netflix documentaries and healthy cooking and eating. 
 

The general goals for students in physical education this year are:
 To have fun and develop positive attitudes toward (lifetime) participation in physical activity.
 To perform a range of skills while increasing your knowledge of physical fitness.
 To learn the rules and strategies when playing a game or activity.
 To give one’s best effort, regardless of winning and losing.
 To demonstrate cooperation, positive sportsmanship, maximum effort, and safety while in class.
Generally speaking, students in grade PreK to grade 2 classes will enhance their cardio endurance by participating in locomotor skills, games, and activities involving running, skipping, galloping, sliding, chasing, fleeing, and dodging. These classes will also be introduced to various manipulative skills and activities that involve kicking, punting, dribbling, and volleying a ball.
Grade 3-8 students will be involved in physical activities that involve individual, team, and cooperative tasks.
As a reminder, all students need to wear their PE uniform, tennis shoes or sneakers and socks for PE class. Please bring a note from your parent/guardian if you cannot play PE for the day.
I look forward to working with all students and parents this school year. My motto for this year is: “If you had fun, then you won”.

The following briefly describes physical education class activities for the month of February.

Grades Pre-2: Students at this level continue to practice various individual, partner, and group physical activities that enhance their mental, physical and social well-being. Such activities include the use of a ball, a jump rope, blocks, hoops, scooters, bean bags, etc.  Students will continue to participate in cross-curriculum activities (games using letters and words; games using numbers and concepts; games from other cultures) as well as cooperative games and activities, with and without the use of music. Students are presently starting a unit on gymnastic stunts and movement.

Grades 3-8: Students at this grade level have started a unit on basketball.  As a warm-up, students at this level have been practicing their jump rope skills (long and short jump ropes). Jump roping is a great cardiovascular workout! The basketball unit includes practicing such skills and concepts as dribbling, passing, shooting; basic concepts on individual and team offense and defense; playing 2v2 and 5v5 games. Displaying positive sportsmanship is stressed during every class.