Tuesday, October 25, 2011

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.