HERE WE ARE AGAIN!

It's been a long time! After Falles and Eastern vacation we are back! this time, last meeting report (5th) comes a little bit late. It's not reporter's fault, though! It's my fault! Susana sent me the report one week ago and I forgot to upload it in our blog. Anyway, here you are Susana's great report! Before you read it though, I will remind you next meeting highlights!

DATE: April 28th
STARTING TIME: 17'30-18'00
PLACE: CEIP Miguel Hernández
TOPIC: Games of the World

DIDAC

COOPERATIVE GAMES

Last tuesday 30th of March we had our meeting. We were few people but we enjoyed a lot as always. This time we share our cooperative games. The meeting started with Miguel's game. It was called "Let's make shapes". We did 2 teams. One team had 8 bricks and the other had 8 little chairs. We had to make different shapes with the material as quick as possible. It seemed easy but it wasn't because we had to keep the balance at the same time we set the material. My team lost 3 times in a row. We realized that setting the chairs was more difficult than setting the bricks, But we also lost when we had to walk on the bricks in order to reach to the end of the court.!! The other players were smarter than us.

Miguel's game: Bricks' race!

Maria Jose explained to us her game called "How much time do you need to do it?" One team was inside a circle and the other team was around it and had to throw the ball against their bodies in order to eliminate them. It seemed very easy but it wasn't because MJose gave us only 30'' to do it. The team's success lied in their velocity and good shot because the ball could only touch from the hip to the feet. Mireia's game was very similar to Mariajo's one. This time there was a "Fugitive". A big group had to eliminate the fugitive by touching him with the ball. The main rule was that the person with the ball could not run. During the game we realized that the way to eliminate the fugitive was collaborating between us.

MaJose explainning her game

Nuria's game was called "The meatball" At the beginning it was difficult to understand because we could not put it into practice. But at the end we did it. It consists in making a big meatball with the students and moving all together to the place the teacher told them without talking and separating. It must be funny. We could not play to Didac's game, we needed much more people. When he explained it, we realized that it could be very funny to play in a raining day. The game is called "The chair". I am sure that everybody has played when he was young. We must set a lot of chairs in a circle. Well, not a lot of chairs, we need one chair less than people are (difícil de traducir). Instead of using a radio player, Didac started to play the drums. We had to dance around the chairs while he was playing the drums and when he stopped, we had to try to sit down quickly. The one who missed the chair had to start crying. He had to ask to another classmate: "Can I sit with you?". The answer, of course , was "YES,you can". And he had to sit down on his legs. Each time a chair must be removed and at the end there would be a pair of chairs and brunch of students on them. All keeping the balance!!! Jose Luis explained to us his game. All the students are in a circle. It must be an odd group. The teacher gives a ball. The game consists in passing it to the second classmate on the right or on the left.The game begins with one ball but the teacher gives them more balls. I can imagine if the balls start falling down!! What a mess!!

Susana's game: Transport the ball!

And now it is time to explain my game: "Transport the ball" In teams of four we had to transport a medicinal ball. We had to use 4 sticks and we could not touch the ball. It was a relay race because we had to pass through different obstacles. Didac discovered that it was possible to play also with 3 people. So, we did two teams of three and we played a little. I think it was funny as the other games.

Susana

4th Meeting: Indoor games

Here we are again!

Last February 17th we met at CEIP Miguel Hernández to develop our 4th PE in English meeting and, once more, it was very successful and worthy! Before we started, Nuria asked to be the new reporter and she started to take some notes about the games we developed that afternoon. As I've said, it was a very interesting and worthy meeting because our topic was "Indoor games". Most of valencian PE teachers haven't got any gym at their school, not even a room where they can develop a PE class if the rain shows up. That's the reason we decided that topic. And as I've said, it was very useful to everyone. But I'm not going to say one more word because Nuria did a great report. Before uploading her words though, I would like to remind you the highlights of our next meeting:

DATE: March 31st

HOUR: 17'45am

PLACE: CEIP Miguel Hernández
TOPIC: Cooperative games

Now, it's time for you to read Nurias' great report! By the way, we were so involved and amused with the games we forgot to take any pictures this time. Too bad!

Didac

INDOOR GAMES

Oh, it's raining cats and dogs and we have P.E. class with our pupils. What can we do instead of going outside? First Aida explained on the blackboard a game called “Hung man”, we had to guess the name of a sport by spelling (vowels and consonants). For instance: Is there a B? Yes, there is or no, there isn't. Next was Andreas's game, it was “The gun man”, Miguel added that it was his game too. It was a funny and interesting game. We made a circle and the gun man in the middle shot someone. Susana's game was the “Tube message”, we enjoyed it a lot, it was also a spelling game, we worked in two groups.

Miriam explained her game, “The director of orchestra” in which in a circle we had to do the same movement as the conductor and one of us had to find him/her. My game was “the key thief”, and we tried to steal the key holder without making noise. Jose Luis explained a very similar game to hung man but with a large paper and we had to write with our feet. Finaly, Didac talked about his game called “The clap” just to pay attention. It was really funny. Some of us added different posibilities to this game.

Nuria Ballester

3rd Meeting: Sports Introduction games

Just before we started to develop our 3rd meeting -Sports Introduction Games- last January 13th, Mireia proposed herself to be the reporter. She was injured so she couldn't do barely any exercise. She kept on taking notes and pictures and let me tell you she is done a great report. Take a look! Before that though, I will remind you the info highlights of our 4th meeting:

DATE: February 17th

HOUR: 17'45am

PLACE: CEIP Miguel Hernández
TOPIC: Indoor games

Now, enjoy Mireia's great report! Bye!

Didac

SPORTS INTRODUCTION GAMES

Playing Kao (Nuria's game)

Hi my friends! Last meeting took place January 13th and its topic was Sports’ introduction games. We played several games in which we practiced different aspects of some sports. Most of them were basketball introduction games, such as Survivor (proposed by Miguel), Kao (suggested by Núria) or Superplayer, wich was organized by Dídac. The most difficult game we played was Andrea’s because we had to be bouncing the basketball while catching and pass other balls with your other hand. Then, we played the same game using our feet. We baptized this game with the name: Crazy ball.

Playing Everybody run! (Susana's game)

Susana shown us a game related to baseball. It was called Everybody run! It was interesting because in this game, when an offensive player shot the ball all the team had to run. When you play baseball in PE class, pupils usually have to wait their turn to run and that means they are not active most of the class time. Susana gave us a clue to keep them active all the time! Majo proposed a game called Doesn’t fall it!, in which we set in a row and, with one contact to the ball of each one of us, the ball couldn’t fall down to the floor. José Luis showed us a game related to handball, and specially to practice the extreme position thrown, called Around the goal.

Playing  Superplayer (Didac's game)

Finally, I explained a game that we couldn’t practice because we remained five people and we needed more players. The game was called Tower balloon. I explained that I use to play this game when I start practicing any invasion’ sport, in order to learn basic offensive and defensive actions involved in this kind of sports.But we cannot finish this report without telling the funnier action that Susana made. She scored a goal in her own goal. It was very funny!

See you next meeting!

Mireia

2nd Meeting: As good as 1st!

Hi, folks!
Christmas Holliday is practically gone... Tomorrow, right at this time, we'll be surrounded by a mess of kids asking for playful games to play. Well, I hope you all enjoyed your 15 days off... It's not that bad! Come on! It's time to go back to school and make our students work on their bodies and minds!

 As a matter of fact, it's also time to start activating ourselves because next January 13th will be our next meeting! Remember the highlights:

• Place: CEIP Miguel Hernández
• Time: 17'30hrs (try to be on time!)
• Topic: Sportive introduction games

And now, having this said, I will publish Andrea's report about our last meeting which was as good as the first one! Enjoy Andrea's refined English!

Body Expression (2nd Meeting Report)

In our second “practice class” we worked upon body language. It was a challenge for all of us. Nevertheless we had a lot of fun because we all gave our best! Didac started the class with a funny game called “NumberBomb”. This is a big group game. We all were walking around the court. The basic goal was to count from 1 to 10 without saying any number at the same time. There was no order but nobody could say two numbers in a row. If two of us said a number at the same time, we shouted “Bomb”, and we all felt down, like in a explosion. After this initial game, Marian introduced a game called “Follow the King/Queen”. In this game all of us played together. We were in a circle, and the teacher told who was the King or Queen. He or she had to choose body or face and start to do movements, and all others had to mimic the King or Queen. MªJosé’s game was “How much times I can use it?”. We got groups of 3 or 4 and the teacher gave each group a different thing to develop our expression skills. We had to create a story using that thing in three different ways, that is: it had to "convert" in three different objects along the story. For example, a wheel was used as a bonfire, animal, and pillow in the same story. It was amusing.

Prepearing the stories

When it was my turn I explained a game called "The figure". We used the same groups as before. It consisted in mimic with your eyes blindfolded the figure that one of your partner had created. The other component of the group corrected the second figure. When we finished the game, we talked about how different ways to play “figure” games. In pairs, in small and big groups… The next game was “Run-perform-sit down” explained by Susana. In this game we need four benches, forming a square. There were four teams, each team sit on one bench. Teacher shout a number from 1 to 4. We had to follow these commands:

• Number 1! All the teams must stand up, run to the bench on their right and sit down as quick as possible. But they must walk as BIRDS and chirp as birds do.
• Number 2! All the teams must stand up, run to the bench on their left and sit down as quick as possible. But they must walk as COCKS and crow as they do "cock-a-doodle-doo".
• Number 3! Only the teams that are sat on the benches with the yellow cone can move. They must stand up quickly and sit down on the bench that is in front of them. They must walk and meow as CATS: "meow, meow, meow".
• Number 4! Now the teams on the yellow benches have to run and move as if they were THE INVISIBLE MAN.

It was very funny  because you have to think what to do when you were in each benches, and did it as fast as possible.

Playing RunPerforme

After that, Jose Luis presented a very simple but amazing game called “Invent a language”. We were sitting in pairs. Jose Luis told us that one of us had to invent a language while our partner was trying to follow a conversation. We had a lot of fun in this game. For example, we started to talk like a Russian but then like a Chinese people… we cannot continue the conversation because we laughed so much. Later we were dancing with Nuria and her activity “how to move your hips”. She taught us some movements in order to dance the song “All about the bass”. She explained before the movements without music, and when we cached, we all dance to the music.

Following Nuria's dancing orders

To cool down, Carles told us a “relaxing” game. We were lying on the others in a line. And we made a nice massage to the others. Finally, as a conclusion, I think that we are lucky to have this opportunity to show the others our “best” games, and learn from each other. Also, the best way to know if we like or not one game, and to learn how to explain to our students is playing!!!!

Andrea