 | | I'M A 'SOUTHPAW' TOO!!!! |
Hello, my name is Judy Ryder. I have been the physical education
specialist at Highland Park Elementary for the past 31 years. I graduated from the the University of Minnesota with double  | | 2-HANDED BACKHAND!!! |
majors in Physical Education
and School and Community Health Education. My minors are in Child Psychology and Coaching.
For the first 9 years of my career I coached volleyball  | | FORE!!! |
at Highland Park Senior High School. In my free time I love to golf, play tennis, walk, work out on my recumbent bike, and read. I have serious Donald Duck and Bugs Bunny collections!!!
In  | | SCORE!!!! |
the primary grades, the concentration is on locomotor movements, gross motor skills, eye-hand coordination and spatial awareness. Activities are of low-organization, usually involving manipulatives.
 | | SWISH!!! |
Intermediate students refine the gross motor and locomotor skills through a variety of higher organized activities, and individual and team sports.
Fitness,  | | CHA CHA CHA!!! |
through rhythmic movement, is demonstrated daily by students
in all of my (16) classes. On May 7, 2009, our culminating event will be
the Rhythmic Movement Program.
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