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Exercise routine that's appropriate for three year old Head Start Class.?

• I'm a new graduate and I work in a Head Start program in an elementary school. The kids are required to attend a P.E. class that is down the hall from our classroom and they work-out with a P.E. coach. He has the kids doing jumping jacks, stretching, hand push-ups, and arm circling. The kids don't like the boring exercises and are acting out. The coach got mad at me because I said that the kids in Head Start are supposed to be involved in playful exercise routines, such as bunny hopping around the room and other enjoyable exercises. This coach was blowing his whistle and ordering my ADHD three year old kids to sit in the corner desk in Time Out as punishment for "disrupting the class". The kids didn't like this mean man and they didn't enjoy the callesthenics. Now the coach has complained to my lead teacher that I'm "trying to take over his class". The coach wants me to stand in the back of the room so that he can stand front and center and coach his P.E. class. These are three and four year old children in a poverty stricken small Deep South town. Most of the kids are not socialized properly and have never been to a preschool or structured infant-toddler program. This all seems so wrong to me. I've heard that the students are required to attend a P.E. class instructed by an elementary school P.E. teacher so that Head Start will pay the school a fee-per-student for these services. I would rather teach the kids P.E. myself in my own classroom and I would direct it in an enjoyable manner. My lead teacher said that we're not allowed to do that since the school wouldn't receive their fees for the P.E. education services. Please advise.

• Answer:

  this is truly a hard call you have to find, and bend, the line between structure and play like ok, kids won't eat cream cheese, but they'll eat snowman cheese if the participants are put in time out, maybe offer to "handle those" for him, bunny hopping, lobster lunges, and get the ants out jumping jacks , and two handed ice cream face plops in the back of the room approach those in charge, to be able to keep their fees, that mabe they format a more creative approach, for the littles, so that all can be enjoyed, I mean, what good is Time Out? The instruction needs to fit the kids attention level, and it still can be playful, and structured, just find that line. Maybe even approach the coach yourself.