Where have the days gone?

Today in PE class, I tried something new. I had the 9^th and 10^th grade boys help teach the Pre-K 1 class (3 and 4 year olds). We did very simple activities like kicking and throwing the ball to each other. At first the students seemed uneasy with each other, but by the end of the class they were having fun. It was funny to see how they interacted with one another. One boy in Pre-K has an attention span of 2 seconds and just runs around all over, and his 10^th grade partner didn't know what to do and just stared at the Pre-K student. One 10^th grade boy kept throwing the ball at a pre-k student, but the ball kept hitting the pre-k student in the face. I instructed the 10^th grader to bounce pass the ball to give the younger student more time to catch the ball. Some of the pre-k girls decided that they weren't going to talk or participate, and it was cute to see how the older boys tried to get them to participate. We ended the class with a big game of duck duck goose, which was very funny at times (Many of the pre-k students were clueless to the rules of the game, even though we had played it numerous times before). I think that each student walked away with a special experience. The pre-k students were so excited to play with the “big kids,” and the high school boys got to experience being 3 and 4 years old again.

posted by Sarah @ 9:18 AM