Whistle Talk

As a PE teacher, I often receive quotes from multiple genres...funny, rude, crazy, you  name it, I've probably heard it.  However, today we started our unit on Ultimate Frisbee.  I have never taught it before and my students have never played it before.  Talk about a learning curve for both of us!  I had my students watch a video last night about the game which helped because they at least knew what to expect when they got to class today.  We started with throwing and catching and then worked into small sided games.  The kids seemed to enjoy what was going on.  I would walk to their groups to give feedback, they would ask questions...we had some good conversations.  As we were walking to go inside, one girl who isn't too athletic but she liked to be outside and she likes to play runs up to me and says "Ms. Wood...I knew this was going to be fun...but the fun-ness totally exceeded my expectations!"  I can't tell you how that one sentence ...

Technology is here and has been here for quite some time.  I can for sure say that I love technology.  I like seeing the new phones, tablets, cars, TVs, etc that come out just about every day.  I like that technology is embedded into education to enhance student learning.  If the times are changing, we as teachers need to change with it.  However (you all knew this was coming), is there ever too much screen time?  Does technology necessarily mean they are in front of a screen all the time?  This is the part of technology that I struggle with because I see the zombies that most of the kids are turning into and how they can barely hold a conversation with their peers and it does worry me a bit. About three weeks ago, the staff got a stern talking to about how the Chromebooks should not be used for the kids to play games on them and if there is unstructured time, they should not be on them. During this same week, we had 8th grade pictures during PE (of ...

Well here goes nothing!  Even though this is an "assignment" my hope is to keep it going in any way that I can.  I love to write and I like to use journaling as a way to get out the frustrations, excitements, or just random thoughts I've had.  Plus, PE classes are probably the place where the funniest things happen.  Think of it as a school version of "Kids Say the Darnedest Things".