Entry #33

Entry #33

School Placement:  Forest Hills Elementary

Cooperating Teacher:  Crystal Boyd

Grades/Subjects:  K-5 PE                    

Date:  10-27-14

Summary of Today’s Activities

                The day started off with bus duty.  Ms. Boyd and I then immediately got started on setting up the gym for our haunted house activity and Halloween scavenger hunt.  We spent pretty much all morning assembling the haunted house.  The students would come in with a partner and the person leading would have a flash light.  They would start off by crawling through a tunnel or wall pads covered with table cloth.  They then would get on a balance beam and try to not fall in the goo or green construction paper.  The students would then crawl through another tunnel and end up near the pumpkin roll or an incline pad that they had to do a complete body roll.  The stepping stones would be next.  If they fell they would fall in a snake pit.  The next station was a set up hula hoops that they had to jump through.  If they fell outside of the hula hoops then they would be bit by spiders.  Once they completed that activity they had to sit on a scooter and go through a bat cave that was constructed with black table cloth and PVC piping and cones.  The students would finish up at “Ghost Jump”, which they had to jump over hurdles that had ghosts taped to the sides of it.  The objective was to jump and not hit the ghosts. 

Reflection

                The haunted house was a ton of fun.  We played Halloween music and turned the lights off while two students were in the gym going through the obstacle course.  I had to explain to them that they were playing pretend and nothing in the gym was to be taken seriously.  I also explained that since they were in a haunted house they must stay quiet.  I basically did this so that they wouldn’t scream the entire time.  I made the students go through it twice so that each partner had a chance to hold the flash light.  Now the scavenger hunt wasn’t as successful and I have yet to understand why it didn’t go as planned.  Ms. Boyd and I set up the Halloween scavenger hunt outside.  We placed clues all around the playground.  The groups were given different clues to start off with and then they went from there to find the next clue.  At some point, the students were going to the same place twice to find a clue.  Anyways, it didn’t go as planned, but the students had a lot of fun and they received a piece of candy at the end of game.