Entry #27

Entry #27

School Placement:  Forest Hills Elementary

Cooperating Teacher:  Crystal Boyd

Grades/Subjects:  K-5 PE

Date:  10-17-14

Summary of Today’s Activities

                This morning Ms. Boyd decided to introduce next week’s games to the kindergartners and first graders so that I know how to teach them next week to all of the classes.  “Bats in the Trees” was played first.  Trees were formed at the beginning of the game.  Ms. Boyd chose the students who would be trees.  Two students formed a tree.  These students would face each other and hold hands.  Their arms were considered branches.  The other students were considered bats.  When the game begins, Ms. Boyd would yell out “Trees raise your branches!” and the bats would pretend they were flying all around they gym.  Ms. Boyd would then yell “Bats find a tree!”  The bats would then find a tree and get inside or in between the students that were considered trees.  Once the bats were inside, the trees would close by lowering their branches or arms.

                The first graders played “Ghost Tag”.  Two students were chosen to be witches and one student was chosen to be a wizard or healer.  The witches tagged students and then they became ghosts.  The wizard would go around and tag ghosts to bring them back to life.  The other grade levels played the games we played all week with the other classes earlier in the week.

Reflection

                Ms. Boyd had a few students acting silly in her classes today.  A few times she handled it by sending them to timeout.  There were a few times when students were talking while she was speaking and instructing.  During these occurrences she stopped instructing and addressed the issue directly to the student in front of the class.  It seemed to be effective.  During this week of observing, after she has addressed the class about misbehaving, the class has normally behaved for the rest of class.  She threatens to stop the game and have them sit for the rest of class.  On Monday I start teaching full time, so this weekend I will be working on lesson plans to prepare for the upcoming week.