Buddy Fitness

Going to Sullivan Elementary was extremely fun for me. I love being able to teach younger students new things, either school-work (peer-tutoring) or fitness. It reminded me of when I was younger and had sports day. I found out that talking directly to the students (making eye contact), repeating phrases and demonstrating the activity beside them, worked better at the stations. We made the improvements I previously mentioned, Amanda and I always demonstrated how to do the activity with the student, and we also added a lot of cheering and high-fives to encourage the grade ones. Next time, I would change the way we split the teams up for our activity. In our activity we need to split the group into two and it seemed hard to get the students to stay in one place, especially when they all just wanted to dance. I felt proud to be a part of this day, I felt like I was a leader and role-model to the younger kids and it boosted my confidence knowing that I could help run an activity like the one my group did. Personal highlights: the boy who did not understand that high knees are done on their own and decided to do high knees while circling a baseball bat, another boy who was so intrigued in our obstacle course that he kept playing and did not realize his group left, and finally a little girl named Emma that hugged me goodbye. I really enjoyed this fieldtrip; it was nice to know that we helped make approx. 60 grade ones happy and active for at least an hour!