Wednesday, October 17th, 2012

PRACTICAL SESSION.
First of all, we did warm up activities:

-Give me five: We had to run over the gym and when the teacher said give me five we had to give five with the most people that we could. And the teacher was changing the erxercise. We had to high fives, low five, behind back fives etc. 

-Warming in a line: We had to divide the class in small groups of four or five people and we had to follow a person who was the leader and repeat all the exercise that she or he did. 

- Stretching exercises and warm-up the joints: In te same group, each member had to choose a stretching exercise and the rest of the group had to repet it. For example, I remember that I chose to stretch the abductors. 

Later, we did different games which did not promote the physical activity.

-Steal de bacon:  The class has to divide into two groups. Each person of the group has a number starting from 1 to the maximum number of people that are. The teams are face to face and one person is in the middle with the bacon. This person has to say aloud a number and people with that number must run to catch the bacon and return to his team, but the other person does not take the bacon can go behind the person wearing the bacon and try to catch him or her. The winner is the team who has most points getting the bacon. 

-Relay race: There are two teams. One person from each team has to run carrying something in this hand from side to side the gym and when you finish the path and he or she has to pass the object to other person who is waiting in a row. The winner is the team who finish first the path. 

- Duck, duck, goose:  The whole class has to sit in a circle. A person  has to go standing touching each person's head saying duck, duck and when touch someone saying goose she or he must  tries to catch to the other person while he or she runs out of the circle to get to sit in the position of the person who is the goose.

When we finished these games we were talking about that this games do not promote physical activity because sometimes the most people are not doing nothing only waiting or sitting down. So, as a teacher we have to do activities that promote physical activity. Where all the people move. 

Moreover, we were talking about these kinds of games where someone was eliminated. So, we talked about how we can change these situations with children. And also each of us has to invent a game with these rules. 

OPINION

I think that the acticity give me five is very useful for us as a future teachers in order to make participated and funny activities and also It is good for students because they have to pay attention to the rest of the class. Moreover, I believe that this activity is going to like very much from students. 

Furtheremore, the activity to follow the leader is good because students enjoy it. It is useful to students because they have to imitate the exercise of other person and they have to pay attention and also It promotes imagination in order to do differente exercise.  

About the activities "Steal the bacon", "Relay race"and "Duck duck goose". I belive that students really like them. But the teacher has to know that this activity promote competition between them and she or he has to control it. Also these kinds of activities do not promote exercise in all the students because there are some students who do not do anything. So the teacher can change the activity or explain them the kind of activity that is.