Olympics

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Though there is not much play in my fifth grade classroom, I have been trying to incorporate it the best I can so that I can see the effect it has on the children. I have been doing a mini unit on the olympics the past two weeks. For our closing lesson I made our very own classroom olympics. Since it was just in our small classroom, I had to do activities that would be appropriate and quieter. We did a balloon between the knees relay, pass the tissue paper with a straw race, spoon on the nose race, and balloon between back relay. I couldn't believe how much fun the students had by just incorporating some physical play. The unit is now over, but they are still asking to do more with the olympics because they had so much fun, so that made me feel really good. I believe it is important to let the students have some sort of play or activity during the day so they are able to relax a little and refresh themselves instead of sitting in their desks all day in a serious tone. My goal is to keep incorporating activities and play based events like this one in my lessons.

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Thursday, February 11, 2010