Aha!

I've found a precious goldmine of a secret today: When I have fun teaching do fun activities with the class, students generally respond well. Who would've thunk??

Today, during our unit on data analysis, I formulated a quick series of races. The students were separated into groups, and we raced and recorded the results. The students did the following races (each student only did ONE of the below):

-regular running
-jumping
-running backwards
-doing "knee-touches" (where the students put their hands out at waist-level and had to reach their knees to their hands)

Each race went from the tetherball poles to a soccer goal and back. The kids did surprisingly well with the races; there was minimal complaining and a lot of laughing. Tomorrow, we graph the results... We'll see how that goes.

I will say, though, that my attitude determines a lot. It's dangerous. This morning, I decided to have a better day than yesterday.

Anyway, just a quick update. For now, I prep tomorrow and then go work out at our local YMCA! :) Cheers.