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| Playing Supermouse! |
After three weeks, we met again in Ave Maria de Penya-roja, Carmen's school. It was the first practical session and I showed how to plan and develop different PE games in English. However, Josep asked if he could develop a warming up game since he will miss next class and he won't be able to develop any game and I was very happy handing the class to him. He did a very good job explaining his warming up activities. Moreover, he offered himself to be the reporter and he has already finished the writing. You can enjoy it below the highlights of next session. Bye!
Didac
DATE: March 9th (18:00-20:00)PLACE: Escola Ave Maria de Penya-roja (Av. França, 3)
CONTENT: Ball Games
2nd Session Report
At 6 o’clock p.m. of a windy
Wednesday of February began our first playground class. The aim of this meeting
was to show how we have to develop our physical education tasks in next
classes. First of all, Dídac explain us the
basic routines to start a PE class. In that sense, we can use the following
sentences: Good morning! Has anybody
forgotten the sport bag? Is anybody missing? Let me check the list! Why are you
late? Remember: Do not run through
the corridor and be silent, please. After that, Dídac explain a game
called Stinky Handkerchief. The main rules of this chasing game are:
- It is played in a wide zone.
- 3, 4 or 5 students have a stinky handkerchief. These students have to touch their partners with the hand that is holding the handkerchief.
- You cannot hide the handkerchief. It has to be visible.
- When a student with a stinky handkerchief catches anybody, he/she must say “I’ve got you. You must stop.” Then he/she have to rub the stinky handkerchief on his/her body’s partner and say “You stink” as she or he throws the handkerchief on the floor and runs away. That will be the pupils language involved in the task.
- 1st phase. Let’s move our joints: neck, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees and ankles.
- 2nd phase. Activation. In this part of the warm up we played a chasing game. Pupils have to make pairs and they have to give their right hand to his/her partner. They have to run in that position. The chasing pair also have to hold a handkerchief in order to know that they are running after the other pairs.
- 3rd phase. Stretching. We stretched our muscles: quadriceps, soleus, femoral biceps, deltoid, and triceps.
- 4th phase. General exercises. In this part we played a game. All the students had to make a circle in pairs. The teacher proposed different motor tasks (lateral running, skipping, jumping...). The student that was inside the circle had to do these tasks in his/her place and the other one did these tasks while he/she was running around the circle. When the teacher said “go” the student that was running around have to hurry up (he/she couldn’t change his/her direction and he couldn’t run inside the circle) in order to creep under his partner’s legs. The last student and his partner had to do 20 squat jumps.
Although we were exhausted due to
the exercise we did, Dídac make us play three more games using handkerchief: Handkerchiefs,
Supermouse and Supermouse Express. In the first game –Handkerchiefs– each
student had to wear a handkerchief on his side (not too deep). At the signal
–go!– we had to try to steal other’s handkerchiefs and put them on our side (a
maximum of three) and we also had to be aware in order to keep the ones we got.
In the second game, Supermouse,
every student had to wear a handkerchief on his back (like a tail). But now the
aim of the game was to steal handkerchiefs and threw them on the floor as you
count them up aloud –One! Two! Three!...–. The game ended when someone stole
five handkerchief and said: “I’m the winner! Supermouse!”. Another way of
playing this game is “Supermouse Express”. In that case the winner is the first
student that steals just one handkerchief.
And
that was all we did. See you soon!
Josep Espert
