{"id":11313,"date":"2018-02-12T07:19:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T15:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=11313"},"modified":"2018-02-16T07:27:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T15:27:29","slug":"jedi-training-academy-at-fairmont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/?p=11313","title":{"rendered":"Jedi Training Academy at Fairmont"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The force was with students as they trained at Fairmont Elementary School\u2019s Jedi Academy. In preparation for December\u2019s premiere of the latest Star Wars film, PE Coach Nate Babcock led students in Jedi themed activities involving light sabers, the Jedi Code, and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We wanted to use the excitement for the movie to develop and cultivate functional movement skills, personal and social responsibility, and to create meaningful and enjoyable opportunities to move and play that were related to something culturally relevant,\u201d Coach B explained.<\/p>\n<p><\/span>The unit was presented in four sessions.\u00a0 Step 1 introduced students to the Jedi Code which emphasizes PEACE.\u00a0\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Step 2 showed them some short clips from Star Wars and other videos (emphasizing footwork and other techniques needed for light saber dueling).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Step 3 led students through a progression of drills that a Jedi would do in training.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Step 4 provided the opportunity for students to choreograph a routine with light sabers that looked like it belonged in the movie.<\/p>\n<p><\/span>Students really enjoyed the two-week unit and are hoping to practice their Jedi skills again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Fairmont-Elementary-Jedi-Training-1-30-18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11315\" src=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Fairmont-Elementary-Jedi-Training-1-30-18-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"Jedi training at Fairmont.\" width=\"300\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Fairmont-Elementary-Jedi-Training-1-30-18-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Fairmont-Elementary-Jedi-Training-1-30-18-768x608.jpg 768w, https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Fairmont-Elementary-Jedi-Training-1-30-18.jpg 871w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The force was with students as they trained at Fairmont Elementary School\u2019s Jedi Academy. In preparation for December\u2019s premiere of the latest Star Wars film,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11314,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1168],"tags":[1771,329,1708],"class_list":["post-11313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elementary-school","tag-fairmont","tag-fairmont-elementary-school","tag-falcons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodnews.pylusd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}