April 28, 2008, Monday
Back from Spring break…and we’re back to the exciting box of teaching! It’s Monday and of course it’s Planet Health day! I thought I’d skip to teach the first block today since the students are just coming back from the break. I thought of this to make them have a smoother transition from their break back to school. I made it clear to them though that this is the first time we’ve ever had some type of free block in English class so the expectations to structure their own time was highly emphasized. They did pretty well. They chattered with their peers and stayed in class without any trouble. None of them took space or even got into trouble, they were just enjoying the first few minutes of free time just like I did.
When Science block came, of course I had to teach! One free block is enough to make their transition. I prepared this lesson plan quite well. Today the lesson is about Activity Theme with the subunit on Lifestyle. I have printed off 10 different exercises that I placed on different areas in the classroom. Each of these exercise station targets one of the three types of Physical Fitness such as Aerobic Fitness, Anaerobic Fitness and Flexibility. Initially, I had instructed the students to individually follow the exercises, however as they were doing the first three stations I noticed that some of them were not doing it the correct way and were having some difficulties. So, I went ahead and told them to stop and we are just going to do it as a class. That went smoother and everybody in class was doing it as stated in the directions. We were able to accomplish 4 out of the 10 stations and we planed on continuing the rest of the exercises next week.
