Last week

Last week the classes for gym changed and the students started a new unit, badmittin. So far it has been going well. Some of the kids are having trouble with the coordination involved with this game, and don't listen well to the instructions of how to do things like serving. I have been working with one kid with this, and he is kinda getting it. It takes longer for him to understand what to do, but he tries hard. I had to get on the kids last tuesday. I was trying to call out attendence, and everybody kept talking and messing around. I finally got done and told them they had to do three baseline to baseline runs with much resistance, so I told them if one person didn't run the whole thing they would start over. That worked well. Overall the progress is getting better, and the other kids in the weightlifting class are doing well also.

This week

Today most of the students were for some reason out of control. I had to pull a few aside to remind them of safety concerns in the weight room. I also had to deduct points from a few students for the day due to lack of doing anything productive in the weight room. Some students have a problem with doing what they are told, and canno't for the life of them do simple tasks such as dressing out for class, or being on time. The weight room is not a place to play arround and mess with people. The swimming class was not much better. I admistered swim requirement tests to about 20 students, but the rest of the class would get in the way or splash myself and the class teacher. Even while taking attendence, some of the swim students were completely disrespecting me. Oh well. Have a good one till next week.