Lab 3 Reflection

As the weeks go by, and we spend more time with the children at St.Marys, teaching the kids our games becomes easier. By easier I mean that we are becoming more comfortable with the children as they are with us. I also see the level of enjoyment for the kids raising as well when we bring props in to go along with our games, and dress up in costumes that relate to the theme of the week. I believe my peers, and I are improving each and every week that we get to go to St. Marys. Whether it be with the comfort level with the kids, or the improvements of our teaching strategies this is a great experience for all of us. This week we had a western theme. Many of us dressed up as cowboys, and cowgirls to engage the children in playing the games, and a few of the group members also brought props to go along with our games. As we do every week we observed certain motor skills. This week we observed the leap, horizontal jump, and the slide. I have done a written lab for these skills and other techniques I noticed in this weeks lab.   

Lab 2 Reflection

Our second time at St. Mary's was a great experience. After already being there once before I feel like we were all a lot more confident in presenting our games to the children. Our theme this week was cartoons and, I was pleased to see that many of us dressed up for the occasion. The children loved to costumes and, were very interested in them. I think enjoyed the costumes and props very much. I believe the games went very smoothly this week and, that the children had a lot of fun with them. I did notice that a few of the older children were a little less interested in the simpler games, so I think we need to revise some of them to fit their age group some more and, make them a little more challenging for them. Overall I think it was a very successful lab and look forward to our next one. We also observed the children for certain locomotor skills this week. Here is my lab observations.

LETS MOVE IN SCHOOL!!!

I just received an email today about the Lets Move In  School program that's going on right now. I think this program is amazing and, a great idea for children today. Here's a link for everyone to click on and watch a short video about the program and, a small written description. website Enjoy, and Lets get moving at least 60 minutes a day!

Good Reasons For P.E

As this semester is just taking off I wanted to post this article for everyone to view. This article is short and to the point but it points out very important things; the reasons we are all here. Enjoy!

Lab 1 reflection

The first lab at St. Marys was a wonderful experience. I think myself and my peers all did an awesome job. I feel like we all went in there with positive attitudes and excitement. we were the gym group and it was amazing to be able to present the kids with our games the first day. I think this is going to be an amazing semester here at St. Marys.

Special Olympics

Over the past weekend I volunteered for the Special Olympics on Friday night and Saturday morning. It was an amazing experience to help out and meet the athletes. The athletes were awesome people they were so excited to be there and played the games with all their hearts. I wanted to share how much this experience meant to me and how it really touched me to be able to be apart of this event. 

Virtus

The last two classes have really opened my eyes about the danger that faces children everyday. Of course child molestation isn't anything I didn't know about but now I know how to look for it and protect children from it ever happening to them. The videos we viewed in class made me see that anybody can do this and not to be stereotypical about it, to look for the warning signs in everyone. It also let me see how we as teachers can protect ourselves from this and that the guidelines in place are to protect everyone and are extermly helpful and useful.