Wednesday, November 21st, 2012

PRACTICAL CLASS

In order to warm up, we did a game call "Follow the leader".

This game consist on make groups of four people. Each group have to form a line and the person who is the first has to do an exercise and the rest of the people have to do the same exercise. Later, they have to change the leader. 

Later, we continued with the Tag Games.

-Elena: Heads or tails. 

First of all, the teacher put all the students in a white straight line in order to make the groups. The teacher passed in front of them saying each one if they were HEAD or TAIL.

Once all of them knew the group they belonged to, teacher asked them to put themselves in two separated and parallel lines. Heads were in one and Tails in another. Teacher told to put them in a line so that they were in front of each other with their backs.

You explained the game telling them that, after you threw the coin, if the result was HEAD, the Heads team had to run to their part of the court and they had to try not to be caught by the other team. And the same with the other team.

First we did it standing up twice, after that, the teacher asked them for sitting down and the last two times they were lying on the floor. 

From my point of view, I think that this game is funny. It promotes physical activity which is an objective of this task. I think that children would enjoy it because it has a littel of coopetition. It is perfect for a PE class. 

Moreover, some days ago we had to do an Activity by pairs who call "Sample open-ended contract".

Where we had to think about different exercises to do in order to improve the basketball skill. The total time of the exercise was 40minutes. 

In this link you can see the framework of the Activity. 

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B9A1lFjdd7btQk0zN2s5eHc0Wlk

Later, the teacher picked up the activity of all of us. Furtheremore she did some of exercise taken from our exercises in order to prove if the exercises were good. 

We put in pairs and we had to earn at least 20 point because each exercise had a point from 1 to 5

In this image you can see the white board where the exercises were painted. 

Examples: 

-Run the balls in the hands by alternative hands.  25 times.     2 points.

-Practice bouncing the ball between your legs.  10 times each side.   2 points.

-Steal the partner ball while dribbling.    Steal 3 times.    5 points.

Finally, we did a self-evaluation where the teacher said some questions about how was the class and we had to score with our finger from 0 to 5. 

For example:

-Listening to instructions ( I was a good listener today).

- Following instructions (I followed instructions today)

-Learning skills (I learned a new skill today)

-Demonstrating sportsmanship (I was a good sport person today).

OPINION.

Related to the warm up activity "Follow the leader". I think that it funy for children because the have to imitate another person. They can be creative. They can feel important because one of them has to manage the exercise. I think that this exercise promote self-responsability and self-esteem. 

Related to the basketball exercise. I think that is useful for as a future teacher becuase it difficul to prepare a class. First, we had to think our exercise and later we put in common some of them that the teacher chose. Moreover, this activity is funy for children but we have to adapt to their age  because not all the children know the activities that we did. 

It is important to put in practice the exercise that we invented because you can see if they are well or if you have to change something.

Related to the end of the class when we had to evaluate ourselves with the fingers. I think that is useful for as future teachers because we can use it in a future with our students. It is a good way of evaluate if children are responsable and if they say the true. Because before do this evaluation the teacher has to observe the students. Besides, this activity is funy for children because they can think about what they have done and express it  with their hands.