It was a very difficult week in the Northeast......and it continues to be difficult as so many are still dealing with the devastation of Hurricane Sandy. My thoughts are with all those who have been affected.....
.....I was proud of a fourth grade class this week when they were asked to work together to complete a task. Our exit question this week was "Did you cooperate today?" and when I asked the question at the end of PE class one of my students replied: "Yes, especially during the planning time!"
.....The culmination to our cooperative activities unit is the use of our traverse rock wall. The excitement was amazing this week as students walked in to find the wall open for climbing!
.....Physical Eddie is one of our mascot bears who spends time in each of the classrooms learning about Healthy Highway and healthy choices. He was in a third grade class this week and the students brought him to PE class. We were playing a Project Adventure game called "Peek-A-Who?" where students stand behind tarps and figure out which of the students is hiding behind the opposite tarp. The students included Physical Eddie in this game and during one of the rounds he was the one who was hiding! The other group figured it out! At the end of class when we were sharing our feelings about the activity, one student helped Physical Eddie share that he felt good that the other group noticed that he was missing!
.....My primary students were playing a warm-up game called "Cleanies and Messies". The "cleanies" like the cones set up and the "messies" like the cones down. All students take turns being a "cleanie" and then a "messie" but some like one role better than the other. When I assigned one student to be a "cleanie" she exclaimed "YESSSSS!"
.....At the end of the week we held a Healthy Highway assembly during which we introduced our new "road" that we will travel on for the month of November. We will be traveling down "Responsibility Road" and we had a great time teaching students about the meaning of responsibility in terms of behavior, physical fitness, and nutritious choices, and recognizing students for their responsible choices. We always end our assembly with a dance and this month a fourth grade class volunteered to be the leaders on stage for the dance!
I hope you enjoyed the "Best Parts of My Week!" To find out more about the PE program at North Park, visit my website: http://classrooms.hydeparkschools.org/webpages/MRobelee/
See you next week!
