To start off the day my group and I
were the leaders of the initial gym activities. The subject of today’s
activities were, kicking the ball, and stationary dribbling. There was a wide
variety of games involved with these skills. First there was the game of “kick
the can” modified so that it was kick the pins over instead. The pins were all
lined up and the students had a specific starting point. They had to aim in order
to kick over the pin and stay controlled. The other student teachers reset up
the pins each time they were knocked down. Continuing with the subject of
kicking, the next game was a team game. It still involved the kicking skill but
this time there were goals involved instead of pins, and some of the students
were defenders until they got to switch.
Then we moved onto the skill of
dribbling. The first game played was a modified version of “red light green
light.” The students were instructed to dribble the basketball from one side of
the court to the other while listening to the color of the lights indicating to
go, slow, or stop all while dribbling. This went pretty successful. I tried to
key in on the important factors of dribbling such as keeping it at waist level,
using fingertips to bounce the ball, and keeping their heads up while dribbling
to make sure they did not run into anyone else. This was followed by a dual
game of kicking and dribbling. This game was set up so that there were goals underneath
the basketball hoop and the student were split up into two teams. One of the
teams had pinnies and the other did not, this helped clarify who was on what
team. The objective of the game was to score points by either shooting a basket
or kicking the ball into the goal. There was a catch though the students could
not run all the way down the down to score they could only take three steps and
they would have to pass it to a team mate. This was a very exciting game and it
got lots of involvement, especially when the student teachers joined in.
After they students were done with
that game they were able to do whatever activities they would like in the gym. Some
wanted to play a game of tag with the student teachers. We played the original
freeze tag first but then it was changed to Chinese temple tag. This was a lot of
fun and it got a lot of students running around. The students began to get worn
down so before the next activity they all grouped and had a water break for a
few minutes.
The next activity was in the
cafeteria where they had snack and then was able to participate in various
activity such as building blocks, coloring book, checkers, and dominos. The students
were very creative with what they build. The student teachers had fun building
blocks with them as well. It was interesting to see the different concepts each
student creates. The ones who were playing with the dominos were creating house
layouts originally but then decided to build the blocks up and then topple them
down. We even made a few domino tracts and had lots of twists and turns involved.
Then cafeteria time came to an end and each of the students helped clean up their
messes and other activities.
We were able to return to gym again
and resume playing whatever activities they liked. I got to experience a new
activity with one of the students practicing for her beauty pageant. She was
very eager to show off her talent portion and even help and train others in their
pageant walk and wave. It was humorous, especially when she began her strutting,
but it was fun so we played along. Her talent portion involved some gymnastics
moves, so we found a blue panel mat in the back corner of the gym to practice
on. Once other students saw what we were doing they decided to join in. soon
there were a couple students showing off their gymnastics skills. I saw
students able to perform splits and cartwheels. Then we decided to work on a
little routine with leaps, jumps, rolling, and even a couple of handstands and
cartwheels. The students loved being able to show off what they could do.
Soon the day came to an end as we
all met in the middle of the gym for our closing games. We started with a game
of toilet tag. I worked with a preschooler and she loved to run around and
flush everybody’s arm to set them free. Once the game was over a fun and silly
song was sung that the students seemed to enjoy. Then finally the St. Mary’s
goodbye cheer. It was a successful and fun day once again at St. Mary’s.
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