On Thursday, March 12th , in the grassy area Room 15 taught other classes in Explorer Elementary how to use an AP(Adventure Playground). At first I was an interviewer. Every 5 to 7 minutes I interviewed someone to get feedback and to see what they're doing. We switched jobs after teaching 2 classes. My second job was play observer. The purpose of the Play observer is to observe all the things about the people we were teaching. They also could encourage and give messages to other people who weren't using the equipment correctly. I'm writing this about the time I was play observer. |
We started out with the welcomers. They gave an opening speech about what the adventure playground is. Next came the rule readers. They read all our rules.
Then after they had read all the rules everybody started playing(the kids we we were teaching). I started out taking some notes about what they started out building. These were some of my header notes for Ms. Feitelberg’s class: “ Making a slip and slide out of cardboard. A lot of teepees. Making a horn out of pvc pipe. Colliding into each other on the slip and slide. Making houses and cubes.” We were taking notes for our research questions and to share with our class. Also if we saw anything that was against the rules we would go up to the person who broke them and give them a message. I learned that you had to look up a lot and really get a picture of all the things that were around you, to get the full share of notes. Also you had to write really fast because so many actions or things to write down were around you. This job was really fun for me because I really like taking down notes and seeing interesting things. This job also gives me a lot of information for my research question. If we were to teach another class I would definitely want this job because it was so fun and interesting.
By Seth and Ian
Then after they had read all the rules everybody started playing(the kids we we were teaching). I started out taking some notes about what they started out building. These were some of my header notes for Ms. Feitelberg’s class: “ Making a slip and slide out of cardboard. A lot of teepees. Making a horn out of pvc pipe. Colliding into each other on the slip and slide. Making houses and cubes.” We were taking notes for our research questions and to share with our class. Also if we saw anything that was against the rules we would go up to the person who broke them and give them a message. I learned that you had to look up a lot and really get a picture of all the things that were around you, to get the full share of notes. Also you had to write really fast because so many actions or things to write down were around you. This job was really fun for me because I really like taking down notes and seeing interesting things. This job also gives me a lot of information for my research question. If we were to teach another class I would definitely want this job because it was so fun and interesting.
By Seth and Ian