Our Primary Sponsor, S&& Worldwide, is interested in getting your help as they are interested in improving their physical education products and service. We invite you to complete their short survey (6-10 minutes to complete) they have put together. As a thank you for your time and opinions everyone who completes the entire survey will get a discount purchase code ($20 off $100+ purchase and FREE shipping on orders $200+ - restrictions apply for free shipping offer - see prize drawing rules) usable on your next purchase with S&& Worldwide. You must be a current or past K-12 physical educator teaching in the United States to complete the survey.

Grand Prize Drawing Winners:

• First Prize Winner receives $1000.00 gift certificate.
• Second Prize Winner receives $500.00 gift certificate.
• Third Prize Winner receives $250.00 gift certificate.

The survey will be available until Monday, April 24, 2006. Thanks again for taking the time to complete the survey and our thanks to our friends at S&S Worldwide. We are very excited to have them on board as PE Central's Primary Sponsor!

Other great offers from S&S Worldwide, Sponsor of PE Central

• All published authors of lesson ideas, kids quotes, or Best Practices on PEC now receive a $50.00 gift certificate towards a purchase from S&S Worldwide. (Submit Lesson Idea)
• If you shop and purchase items from S&S Worldwide going through the special links on PE Central you save money on your purchase (up to $40.00 off a $300 order) and you support PE Central financially!
• S&S equipment conveniantly featured on most PE Central Lesson Ideas.

Our Pedometer LOG IT Program continues to be extremely popular (over 105,000 registrants!) and we continue to update the site with new features. Thanks to all of our users who suggest new items to add. We want to thank our sponsor NEW LIFESTYLES for their continued sposorship of the site. We really appreciate it. We are shooting for all of our participants to log 1.5 million miles this year. We are off to a great start with over 450,000 miles logged to date!

NEW Features recently added to the site:

• Teachers can log student miles for them up to 21 days back (Students can still only go back 6 days)
• Students can view ALL of their recorded steps/miles under the View Steps Tab
• Challenging other schools to a hike across USA invitation center (see challenge area)

Testimonial: "Thanks for this cool Web site. It is an awesome way to keep track of mileage progress. Six members of my family have faithfully worn our pedometers for 2 years, 2 months and we're getting my dad involved more now on our second hike around the US."

Testimonial: "I LOVE the LOG IT program. Students that used to want to do nothing at PE now run all over to add steps. They even take walks after school! I can't thank you enough for this site.."

Over 2,500 schools, YMCA's, Boys and Girls Clubs and recreation programs are enjoying the benefits of the Skillastics^TM games in their physical education programs. Experience Skillastics^TM and see how these games can enhance your program.

Through April 30, 2006 Sandy "Spin" Slade, Inc., creator of the Skillastics^TM games, is offering a 20% discount exclusively to PE Central visitors. Use this opportunity to purchase Fitness Skillastics^TM (regular price ($179.95), Basketball Skillastics^TM (regular price $159.95), or the new HalfPint Skillastics^TM (regular price $79.95). No limit on quantity purchased.

Skillastics^TM games offer physically challenging but non-competitive exercise for children. Developed for large group participation, Skillastics^TM games enable instructors to get children of varied skill levels to run through drills that fulfill national physical education standards, all in the context of a fun game. Eighty-five percent of our customers agreed that the games are easy to set up and teach, and two thirds strongly agreed that even their kids who normally do not like to participate, enjoyed playing Skillastics.^TM

To see how Skillastics^TM is played visit www.skillastics.com and click on See Skillastics in Action on the home page.

We are excited to let you know we continue to add new products to our store. We are now publishing the popular preschool activity book by Carol Hammett entitled Movement Activities for Early Childhood which you can now get by itself or bundled with our popular Designing Preschool Movement Programs book and our PEC Preschool lesson idea book. In addition, all of the videos that made up the American Master Teacher Program (no longer in existence) are now available in DVD format from PE Central. If you have a product that you would like us to consider adding to our store please contact us at pec@pecentral.org.

Featured NEW Products: (View All New Products)

Coop. Games-Orlick

Orienteering

Elem. Lesson Ideas

We are in the midst of finishing up the 8th year of the PE Central Challenge, our popular skills challenge for 4th and 5th graders. We have an outstanding year with great things being reported from the teachers who registered and the students who participated. One of the great things that has emerged out of the PE Central Challenge over the years is a PE Central Challenge Parents night where parents are invited to the school in the evening to perform the challenge tasks with their sons and/or daughters. I was priveledged to attend one of these events last month and it was terrific. Over 100 people showed up and they all had a blast. To see pictures of a Challenge Parents night in La Paz, Bolivia go here.

Testimonial About Challenge Parents Night in Bolivia: "Although I only got a chance to participate a little, I just want to say "thanks" for a truly wonderful event. Thanks also for keeping an eye out on my son, who had the time of his life! What a great opportunity for him to realize that he CAN do anything if he really tries. He couldn't stop talking about what a great time he had, and most importantly, how great he felt about what he was able to accomplish. Thanks from the bottom of my heart. A proud parent!"

We will be offering the PE Central Challenge again next year so we invite you to register. Registration will be available on or about Oct. 1, 2006. The cost to register is $15.00. This will get you 30 award pins and the chance to sign up first for the following year challenge. Plus additional pins are only .85 ea. If you prefer to just do the challenge for free you can award the certificates we have on the Challenge web site. The award pins are $1.00 each for non-registered participants in the Challenge.

KidsRunning.Com is pleased to announce that Breakaway Books is donating 44 books (one case) of Happy Feet, Healthy Food Books so that 44 schools can run a Happy Feet Lunch Contest to promote healthy eating at their school lunch program.

You can find the details here:

www.kidsrunning.com/happyclub/happyfeetlunchcontests.html

You'll need to notify KidsRunning.Com on school letterhead that your school would like to run one of these contests. Make sure to include your mailing address and also email address. KidsRunning.Com will let you know immediately if they still have a free book for your winner. Then you can go download their special Happy Feet contest entry form and adapt it to make it yours. You'll pick your winner from your student body and serve the winning healthy Happy Feet Lunch at your school lunch program.

If you have questions contact Carol Goodrow at goodrow@infionline.net

PEP Grant Applications are now available! (Dept of Educ. Web site: Deadline to apply: April 12, 06).

Third Annual Summer Institute for Physical Educators at Penn State Univ. Sign up for a great week of learning and sharing. This course will feature a "theory into practice" format. Each of the five days will be spent gaining insights into new ideas and concepts and then applying them in the gymnasium in activity sessions. Evening sessions will be devoted to learning some of the newest dances for students in elementary, middle, and high school. The course will also provide an excellent opportunity to meet other physical educators and network with them about new ideas and program innovations. Speakers include George Graham (lead instructor), Tim Davis, John Bennett, and Kymm Ballard.

Walk across Illinois Web site. Visit this site to join in Illinois Lt. Governor Pat Quinn's challenge to walk 167 miles over the course of the year. Students log onto the site or call 312-814-5220 to sign up. They will receive a username and password. As they enter their mileage on the website their progress will be tracked as if they are walking across the width of Illinois. Students will learn about different Illinois towns they would be passing if they were actually walking across Illinois. There is a health hints section, as well as themes of the month and interesting fitness facts. When they have completed the 167-mile walk they will receive a "Walk Across Illinois" certificate signed by Lt. Governor Pat Quinn, and have their name posted on the Walk Across Illinois website!

Future Fisherman Foundation Grants Available Application deadline: April 14, 2006. Award notices will be delivered prior to the end of the 2005-2006 school year. Provides grants of up to $5,000 to NASPE members across the country to implement fishing and/or boating units as part of P.E. curricula.

Visit our friends at NASPE for additional exciting PE news and Info. (Principals contest, National Physical Education and Sport Week, Rescuing Recess, April Teachers Toolbox, etc.)

Visit our friends at PELINKS4U for the best PE newsletter on the Web!

That does it from PE Central for now. Don't forget to check out our terrific Field Day Lesson Ideas section and our Field Day books in our store. We know field day is just around the corner for many of you. Enjoy the upcoming Spring days.

Sincerely,