Who's Got Skills????

For this lab we had to make sure that the activities that were played demonstrated the children's dribbling skills. My group and I devised a game that would really challenge the students ability to dribble in various tasking environments. We asked the students to bounce the ball inside of numerous hula hoops making sure they only used their fingerpads not their fingertips to dribble the ball. The children then had to walk on top of gymnastics pads and bounce the ball on the side to vary the levels of the activity, finally the kids were forced to dribble underneath a soft foam tube, which was much more congitively demanding for the children. Everytime they would repeat the task I would constantly make it lower for them and challenging them more and more so that they would not be able togo through the entire course without having to perform the tasks we asked of them.

Bounce, Bounce , Bounce

For this lab day , my group and I created an obstacle course for the students to take part in. We set up numerous environments for the children so that the activity would be fun and entertaining for them and remain that way until we decided to change it up a little bit. Our activity required the children to crawl through a tunnel , bounce a ball on star spots, as well as bounce on an over sized ball from one end of the obstacle course to the other in order to start. The students reacted very well to our variations in this activity and kept their attention at all times. We also placed targets at the end of the obstacle course for the children to attempt to hit the center in order for an added bonus at the end.

Pre-K, here we come!

Today was the best lab so far, pre-k students are the ones who I have noticed socialize more with us the "College Kids" and are willing to go out of their comfort zone to introduce themselves to you. These students actually never complained once while I was in their presence, which shocked me to the point of astonishment. Everything they were told to do , they did with a smile on their face. When we moved onto the playground to have a little recess, the kids created great variations to old school Tag and Hide and Seek.