My professor in my KHS 139 class, Kathy Fowler expresses the importance of physical education in the lives of young children. She always says that it is important for children to begin moving at a young age, beginning with gymnastics, dancing, and then moving into the concept of games. Firstly, it is important for the teacher to focus on non-locomotor skills with students (this is the concept of gymnastics). Secondly, it is important for the teacher to then teach the students locomotor skills (this is the concept of dancing). Finally, once the students learn these two important skills, then they can put them both together. Once these two skills are put together, they can play games. Games include manipulative skills, along with non-locomotor and locomotor skills. Students will not know how to properly play games or sports later on in life if they do not first learn basic skills such as balancing, jumping, skipping and running. If we as future teachers teach our students physical education in this manner, then it will allow students to not become frustrated with physical education class in the future and to allow them to be physically active for a lifetime. Students should feel confident and competent with their skills of moving. They should never feel embarrassed in a physical education class. All students should be moving and no student should be sitting on the side. Kathy dislikes “dodgeball” because it allows students to be human targets and it is not safe. There is usually only one ball, so many students are not able to participate and are sitting on the side. Physical education class should allow for maximum participation within individuals. At St. Michael Community School, it looked like the students did not get “recess.” Recess allows students to be physically active for a part of the day. At Sunningdale Elementary School, (the elementary school I attended) we had fifteen minutes of recess in the morning and in the afternoon. Kathy explained the benefits of recess and that it should not be taken away from students because it allows them some time to be physically active. Being physically active includes many cognitive benefits such as having better focus, reducing depression/anxiety in individuals, reducing stress and allowing them to have improved self-esteem. I will make sure my future students are physically active because it will allow them to be confident and competent in their movement skills and will ensure them a higher of a chance that they will be active for a lifetime!