Field Experience - 3/20/2012

Knowledge of Students

I spent another day with the kindergarten class. Since the weather was nice outside my host teacher decided to take the kids out to the playground. The playground was still wet from the night before when it rained but that wouldn't stop the kids from being active. I have come to notice that simple games like tag are a go to game for younger kids. Many of the kids can play this for a full 30 minutes. I have noticed that a select few of the students get agitated when they are constantly being targeted. This tension built up and lead to a small altercation that was settled shortly after. This class consists mostly of boys with only a few girls. Some of the girls participate in tag for a majority of the class but aren't chased as much or can't always tag somebody. Today they spent the last ten minutes or so pretending to be ice cream saleswomen. They would hand out imaginary ice cream to those that came buy their shop. In return you would have to give them imaginary money. Tendencies have shown that boys will run themselves to exhaustion while many of the girls will be conservative and play along until they become mentally tired of the activity.