Observation In Ms. Chavez's Gym Class

I have been observing in Ms. Chavez's gym class for several weeks now, the first thing she does on Monday morning is write on her white board in the gym explaining what the activity is for each day of the week, on another white board she writes any rules or expectations she has for the students that coincide with the activity that day. The next step she takes is getting all the materials needed for the activity and looks them over to make sure they are in working order and safe for the students to be using. Ms. Chavez stays very conscious of her equipments condition as well as setting up an environment that is promoting healthiness for the students. Two weeks ago Ms. Chavez set up a rotation of activities to have the students work on some of the state standards like basic loco motor skills, eye and hand coordination, foot and eye coordination like jump roping, shooting hoops with basketballs, throwing a balloon up and hitting it to keep it off the ground, kicking a soccer ball against the gym wall, playing hot potato with 4 students throwing a soft ball back and forth between the four students. The students all have rules they had to follow that Ms. Chavez explained to them and told them the rules were to keep every one safe. She would set a timer and when it went off
she'd yell freeze all students would freeze and she would have them point to the next center and then she'd have them do a specific activity while going to the next center like frog jumping, skipping, bear crawling, she told every one to take their time and not run anyone over. The students seemed to enjoyed all the activities. Last week Ms.
Chavez planned the parachute as the activity, she made sure to go over all the rules before letting the students get anywhere near the parachute. Telling them one student per triangle, do not hold on to the handles garb the parachute itself to hold on, if their on or under the parachute and she says get out they need to get out as fast as possible but safely. She began by having the students practice lifting the parachute up and looking under so they could feel the parachute in the air and then began having them put their knees on it and slowly stressing the slowly crawl into the middle, then the robot walking on top of it and lastly making a dome and getting under the
parachute. Ms. Chavez stresses to her classes the importance of safety with all activities as well as the importance of exercising helping keep our bodies healthy. She told them if we keep our bodies healthy it will help us in school to act like champs and stay focused in class. The last two weeks she hasn't spoke to any of the classes about nutrition besides keeping their bodies healthy but she does have one bulletin board that talks about making good choices when it comes to being healthy, riding bikes, going for walks, no more than 1 hour of screen time, and eating healthy foods.