Thinking on your feet

So, I think it is pretty safe to say that lab this week was somewhat of a brutal experience at first. When we got there, my group and I found out that two of the people in our group who had planed not only 2 games that we were planning on playing but also a closing dance were not able to make it for their own reasons. This forced Max and myself to really think on our feet and improvise to make sure the lab went smoothly and we kept the students active at all times. Because this week was a theme of Valentines Day, we related all of our games to the holiday.  This lab somewhat confused me because we've been told that the students normally do not want to play a lot of tag; during the two hours at St. Mary's this week, the children were loving tag and kept asking and asking to play more and more tag games. This worked out pretty well considering one of the games I had ready for the class was a tag game. Eventually we left the gym for some time for snack time and the children also engaged in building with leggos and playing other games such as checkers and mancala. I felt really good about my self during this segment when one of the students grandfathers was talking to me and gave me and the rest of my peers some credit when I saw his reaction that my shirt said SUNY Cortland Physical Education. It seemed as if when he saw this he had felt very comfortable to know that his grandson was in good hands. This made me feel really good about myself and the fact that I am part of such a great program. To close off the lab we were in the gym and played a great game that the kids enjoyed which required the students to work on the locomotive movement skills of hopping, galloping, and running. It was fun to watch the kids play a game that we came up with on the spot that ended up with the them having a good time.
I am beginning to feel a lot more comfortable with talking and giving directions. I still have a lot to learn and experience but this is a great place to start and have under my belt in the future.