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This is my prezi about my best and worst times in movement! Check it out hope you enjoy!

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St Mary's Lab 5

Today's lab wasn't quite what I expected AT ALL to say the least.  In lab we only had half the gym, then for my game only half of the half of the gym.  This made teaching and making the kids understand the game 10 times harder.  There were so many distractions between basketball practice and about the 40 kids in the gym, it was hard to keep their attention.  I got through my game, but not every kid participated which was hard.  This was a really good experience to have though, and to show me how hectic things can get.  However, then we went downstairs into the  cafeteria.  I enjoyed myself so much down there when I was coloring with this kids.   I was bonding with many of the kids, and even some of them even made me pictures.  I got some of the kids to talk and remember my name, and I found out theirs.  Overall today was a great experience and showed me just how hectic a class can get.  I cant believe this is all coming to an end!

Lab 4

I had a great experience for this weeks lab.  this weeks theme was halloween and we all dressed up.  I was dressed up as a clown and all of the kids loved it.  I had the cafeteria group and we had a beautiful day so we were outside playing kickball.  Many of them don't play fairly or by the rules, which was hard to play with them.  Then we went and performed our games which went very well.  Many of the kids actually participated, which was a good sign.  Then shannon and I played double dutch with the girls for a while.  It is nice to see they are starting to recognize us and want to come play with us.  Next week I have the Gym group so I am excited to see how that goes!

St Mary's Lab 3

Skill	Materials	Directions	Performance Criteria	Child 1 Girl	Child 2 Boy
1. Leap	Use a clear space	During a game or activity, watch a student leap. Tell the student to take large steps leaping from one foot to the other foot.	1.         Take off on one foot and land on the opposite foot.	yes	yes
			2.         A period where both feet are off the ground (longer than running).	yes	yes
			3.         Forward reach with arm opposite the lead foot.	no	no
2. Horizontal Jump	Use a clear space	During a game or activity, watch a student jump. Tell the student to jump as far as they can.	1.      Preparatory movement includes flexion of both arms and knees with arms extended behind the body.	sometimes	yes
			2.      Arms extend forcefully forward and upward, reaching full extension above the head.	no	yes
			3.      Take off and land on both feet simultaneously.	yes	yes
			4.      Arms are brought downward during landing.	yes	yes
3. Slide	Use a clear space	During a game or activity, watch a student slide. Ask the student to slide facing the same direction.	1.      Body turned sideways to desired direction of travel.	yes	yes
			2.      A step sideways followed by a slide of the trailing foot to a point next to the lead foot.	yes	yes
			3.      A short period where both feet are off the floor.	no	yes
			4.      Able to slide to the right and to the left side.	yes	yes

While watching the gym group perform their lesson, we watched the skills of Leap, Horizontal Jump and Slide.  We were watching a girl and a boy, however the boys did change during the lesson.  As we were watching these skills I did notice with these skills that the boys excelled more than girls.  Both the girls and the boys while doing the leap, neither of them used their arms.  The boys were able to perform every other skill, yet the girls had trouble with some.  The girls didn’t fully extend their arms above their heads in a horizontal jump and didn’t have a period where both feet were off the floor in the slide. 

This week at St Mary’s I was in the Special Projects Group.  So because of this I did not get to work much with the children this week.  As the special projects group we made posters on actions like sliding, jumping, hoping, skipping etc.  This was actually quite difficult.  The PE teacher at St. Mary’s asked us to use feet to demonstrate to the kids how to perform these skills, and he will laminate them and the kids can actually step on the posters and use them.  To try to explain and make the footsteps, for things that we just do out of habit was hard.  Another hard aspect was using words children could understand.  Some kids came up to us and were watching us do the posters.  We would ask them if they knew what certain words were like a lunge and they had no idea.  We literally had to break the skills down step by step, so basic.  It was actually quite difficult and tested our skills and minds.    We tried to make the posters pop with different colors to make them interesting for the students. 

Lab 2

Today observations in Lab 2 with Pre-k