Good job, Jorge.
Emily. What did your group talk about?
We talked about...if um...
Ok.
So you designate it.
So you did what's called playing roles.
You designated yourself as a saver.
Your job was. I'm going to look for people to help.
So in teams, sometimes we have specific roles that we use
to keep people on their feet or in this case, to finish a task.
The academic standard
we were working on this week was how to participate positively
in a cooperative group environment in a variety of physical activities.
OK, so in taking that standard and applying it to SEL,
all of the activities that we did in class this week had to do with
how to be a contributing member of a group.
So there were a few PE standards that I focused on this week.
The overarching ones were standard three where they get their moderate to vigorous
physical activity, standard five, where they're working within a group
and taking responsibility for themself, learning to accept
no, I was able to incorporate regulating emotions.
That was the big SEL concept that I wanted to focus on.
So we talked about how to be patient.
We talked about accepting when you lose
Our curriculum
is designed so that our warm up activity
focuses on a social skill component.
We take most of our tag games and apply things like taking turns,
helping others, asking for permission.
A lot of those games in those warm up activities are really designed around
skills that they could use explicitly in the game
and then also in their everyday life on campus or at home
and done in a fun way,
which allows them automatically to want to buy into wanting to do it.
So from the very beginning of class, I had them read the whiteboard.
They do that every time, and I had them read the Do Now question,
and it changes from week to week.
Sometimes it's skill focused.
Today I had them talk about how they were feeling and why.
So it was very important for me to have them check in with themselves.
Sometimes we come to school with a little bit of
underlying issues.
Maybe you had a bad day at home, you didn't have a great breakfast.
Maybe you didn't sleep well that night.
So it's really important to check in with how you're feeling so that you can make
improvements and changes for the rest of the class.
Yeah...
Yes.
Do you? Yeah.
So you're playing around instead of getting ready for bed.
Yeah
I completely understand that.
And then I was just kind of walking around and listening to how kids are feeling.
If I notice that one kid wasn't opening up enough, I would ask
or maybe they didn't have a partner I would ask them to share with me
just to make sure that everyone was seen and heard and they got to check in
with somebody.
All right.
We're going to jog now.
Please do not stop go
And in our focus activity, it was all about teamwork.
Try to solve task cards with regard to building hula hoop towers
and how to work together to solve challenges
like carrying it, rolling a ball back and forth through it.
Could we build it without talking?
Could we build it with one hand?
And there was even a challenge for could we build it if we were blindfolded
and only had one person who could direct traffic and make us work together
to complete it.
Our house has collapsed.
It still looks like it's standing to me
if you guys go slow enough.
So in the last activity Bridges it was a team activity once again.
So we had to work on cooperating with each other.
And the balancing portion is a third grade standard that we focus on,
and they had to balance on one foot, two feet,
maybe use a hand or ask a partner for help.
But the big SEL strategy was how are you going
to respond when things don't go your way?
How are we going to react to a partner if they make a mistake?
Or what do you do if you make a mistake and you have to take responsibility for it?
Just like I told the
students, things don't always go well let's plan for them.
Let's think about it ahead of time.
So when they don't go well, how are we going to react?
All right, so what do we decide team?
So if one of us falls on the ground we're going to say pizza.
Pizza, and that's kind of like your code word to shake it off and get back to it.
I like it.
Pizza makes me happy, so...
And when we get to-
Nice!
I think because the things that they can take away from PE
can be applied to other areas of the school, their life at home,
we find ways to integrate some of their interest level
and pull away from that and say how can we take some of the things
that we've done in a game sense and apply them to your everyday life?
Working as a good teammates is is just
as important skill as learning how to throw how to catch, how to kick.
I think that
every adult has an opportunity to teach kids
how to treat others and how to regulate their own emotions.
And I think each of us has that wonderful opportunity.
And now in PE in sport, I think it's even more so
because these are challenges that come up during games.
In life, things don't go our way.
How can we respond to it like we do in a game
How we do-
Pizza!
We were so close.
Pizza Mark, pizza.