Entry #29

Entry #29

School Placement:  Forest Hills Elementary

Cooperating Teacher:  Crystal Boyd

Grades/Subjects:  K-5 PE

Date:  10-21-14

Summary of Today’s Activities

                Today we had the kindergartners.  The warm up activity was “Monster Mash”.  We then played a game called “Bats in the Trees”.  Two students are considered to be trees when they are facing each other and holding hands.  The rest of the students are considered to be bats.  When the game began I yelled “Bats fly around!”  The students that were bats would pretend to be flying all around the gym.  When I yelled “Bats find a tree”, the trees would raise their branches (arms) and the bats would get inside in between the two students or inside the tree.  We then played a game called “Ghost Tag”.  Two students were chosen to be witches and one student was chosen to be the wizard.  The witches’ job was to tag as many trick-or-treaters and turn them into ghosts.  When the students were turned into ghosts, the wizard would come by and tag them and bring them back to life and they were allowed to walk around the gym again.

Reflection

                In one of the kindergarten classes I had a student come up and tell me they didn’t like the game we were playing because they were scared of witches.  The student looked extremely scared and so what I told him was that we were playing pretend and that none of it was real.  He really didn’t care much for what I had to say so I told him it was fine to sit out for that game.  I also had the student with autism in my class this morning.  He got upset every time he didn’t find a hula hoop to stand in during the “Monster Mash” game.  I had to have a talk with him during the game and let him know that all the other students that were out of the game were not acting in the way he was.  So far, kindergarten has been the challenging grade to teach.  I have learned that as a teacher of a kindergarten class, you must explain every minute detail or things will go haywire during your lesson.  That includes everything from how the game begins to the cleanup of the gym equipment at the end.