Wednesday, January 17th, 2013

PRACTICAL CLASS. 

First of all, we started with the Activities related to Sport & Games.

In order to warm up we have done a game consisted on a person had to catch other person and he or she had to say aloud the name of the person who was going to cacht. The rest of the people had to croos between the catcher and the person who was going to catch for saving it. When someone crossed between them the catcher had to change the person who had to chatch who was the person who crosses between them. 

From my point of view, I think that this game is good but it has some disadvantages because there are people who do not do any physical activity. So it would be better to change that situation.

Secondly, we started with the activity. We were doing exercise about badminton. First the teacher explain us some things related to the rules of badminton like the way to take the racket, the name of the ball of badminton. Then we were doing different exercise in order to understand the activity such as:
-Practice alone with the racket.
-Practice the touch  with different rhythms.
-Practice with a peer. 
-Practice with three people. 
-Practice with a peer on the red.

In this link you can see the activity:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9A1lFjdd7btdnJiZ1JWMjhvWkU/edit

From my point of view, I think that this activity is good to use with children because they would learn a lot of things. But I have seen some things which they would change. I think that they would search more information about the way to take the racket because they say wrong the way to put the fingers. It is important because you have to have a free movement in order to conduct better the direction of the ball. Besides, we would need more space between couples. The teachers have never corrected us. And when I was playing with my couple there were in the middle of us. So we could not play well.

After the activity related to badminton we did an activity about American football. We did different exercise in order to understad it such as:

-How to take the ball with the fingers.

-How to passs the ball

-How to pass the ball to another person. 

-Who is the cuaterback. He has to be stop while another person has to run in order to9 score a mark.

Later we play a match dividing the class in two teams. We had to pass the ball to one side of the gym to the other side doing as maximum 8 passes. But if the ball took the floor the team ha dto change.

In this link you can see the Activity of American Football:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9A1lFjdd7btb09Uejh3a3hmQVU/edit

From my opinion, this game is very useful for children because they can learn through a game a sport. The did well the game correctly because they corrected our failure for example in the way to take ball or to trow it. It is perfect I would not change nothing. Moreover, the game to warm up was amazing. We wore a belt on our wais. The bel had a velcro with a strips and he had to earn as much as possible those strips. So, I think that they were prepare very well for doing the activity. 

Morever, I think that badminton is a good example to show a dual game and American football is a good example to show a team game. Also they are a good examples to show enjoyment, maximum participation and learning. Which are the things that I have learned related to the presentation about Sport & Game because there were the classification of sports and games and their characteristics.