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Frankenstein Episode: A Highlight Mash-up!
Greetings PE Nation!
Today I wanted to give you a "best-of" compilation of my recent guests on the show, including insightful clips and funny moments.ere are some highlights:
• Implementing standards effectively through advance planning and focusing on the most important outcomes
• Using creative teaching tools like Webster the inflatable puppet to engage young learners
• All Kids Bike program helps kindergartners learn to ride through a progressive approach from balance bikes to pedals
• Replacing the word "jail" with "quicksand" in games makes activities more inclusive for all students
• Bowling provides students with transferable skills they can use at social gatherings
• Creating memorable experiences through special units and challenges like Amazing Race activities
• Developing student autonomy by teaching them to set up equipment and run activities independently
• Simple games like "Toss Three" effectively teach fundamental skills while requiring minimal setup
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Dave
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Hello and welcome to the Super Satisfys Ad Podcast. My name is Dave and today I want to do kind of a best of episode or better yet, I like the name Frankenstein episode, where I take little clips, funny clips and really good, insightful clips from my previous guests in the recent couple months and I put them together in a nice little compilation. So I hope you enjoy this, the Frankenstein episode. Without further ado, here we go.
Speaker 1:There is one thing that I'm not as, and it's I'm only bringing this up because, again, I just had an interview, this this earlier today, and I um, so I'm going to be a little bit opposite on you on this one, and it's not not a bad thing, I'm just saying it's.
Speaker 1:So, if anything is a bad thing on my part, I don't feel like I'm, uh, I'm, I'm not the best at okay, I put out probably 300 podcasts or right around there, and you're not gonna hear me talk about standards a lot, because I'm not the best at just being strictly on the standards. I do cover the standards, but I also, you know, I'm not like I and I it sounds like you are, and that's a good thing I just don't get it. In my opinion. I don't feel like I have time to and I've moving parts. I've like this this pair is doing this game over here, I'm doing this over here, this guy's doing this over here, this para is coach, and maybe it's an organizational thing on my part, but how? How do you incorporate standards as well as you do? I guess is is. My question is I'm not the great, I'm not very good at it, I'm just going to admit it.
Speaker 2:Let me. Let me start by saying that I mean you know, first of all, I never judge someone else's where they're at in any detail. I think it's an Indian, native American proverb till I walk a mile in their shoes. So I don't know your situations. Your perspective and your demographics are probably different than mine. But to answer your question, I try to do a decent job planning ahead of time.
Speaker 2:So I know what's happening in September, october, november and I make slide decks for everything. And this is what I was talking about earlier, where I learned to become organized and I kind of document my document. So all my standards are already there on my lessons on my slides. So it's really not that hard to take that information and write it on the whiteboard or make those standards known. And they all look pretty similar. As you know, the standards changed recently the Shape America and plus we have our own state standards frameworks, we have the MAPS framework.
Speaker 2:So what I do is I just take I think I alluded to it earlier what are the top 10 things I want them to learn by the end of the year? There's a lot more than 10 standards there. We have the four shape america ones, but there's other. You know the indicators right so they can't learn everything like I have. Some I have, and there's a great um. There's actually a great spreadsheet that I got. I gotta give a shout out to um, cbhpe. Here's another resource if you don't have it chromebooks build health and collaboration. Um, um, oh, hold on. Collaboration, collaboration builds health, something along those lines.
Speaker 2:It's a website, cbhp you can send it to me after yeah, I'll send it to you. This is where I got this, this, this template, from, and it's really great because it talks about the standards, what's what's happening currently in the program and what you would like, how you would add the standard, depending on what unit you're teaching. So it really has developed a framework so that I utilize that.
Speaker 1:So I love it. Yeah, because I'm again, it's my weakness, it's not so I'm really. Yeah, I love that. Your answer could help me. So I'm trying to say because organization, like you said, you're, you're getting better at I'm I'm not saying I'm not organized at all. I I am, but well, I could be better.
Speaker 2:Let's just put that way and yeah, no, no, and I apologize if I messed up that name too, because no, okay ebhp. Um, I'll send it to you later, but yeah, that's perfect, it's a great, it's a great resource and they have a ton of visuals for for whatever you need scooters, parachutes, everything so oh, awesome, yeah, I'll have to check that out.
Speaker 1:And aside on about webster here's the problem with webster. There's no problem with webster, it's just for well. The thing is they don't. That company didn't make him very good. Well, the quality wasn't very good and so, um, he was, for they discontinued him and so he's been hard to find. So every time he when I say he, uh, my version of him, I guess, um, he loses air very fast, and so I've done patch jobs on him, on multiple versions of him, and it's been really difficult. And finally, on ebay, I found two more like, so I was going to phase him out, almost. And I found two more recently like it just popped up on ebay. I'm like, oh, it grabbed him right away and so I started him up, because I I just introduced him to kindergartners not that long ago and they just love him. I mean, it's, he's any. It's funny again, this isn't a uh, a webster podcast, I guess, but but just having him teach, no, I know. But I have him.
Speaker 1:Do like, I do what's called Match Me, so I'll have. You know, he's out like this and I'll have him. Okay, everybody match Webster and they'll put their arms out. You know, go like this, this, and I know he can, like you know, make different things and they'll match him and we have him do funny skits and things like that. And we have them do funny skits and things like that. And especially when I had my former paras at my old school because he's the one, my one former para he brought Webster to my attention at a sports camp we were doing and I'm like, oh, we got to bring him to PE and so that is cool, yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I never saw the origin story for him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's Webster's origin story.
Speaker 5:As far as bikes go. I just was. I had done a few different grants at Algonquin my two through six building and I was like man, what can I do over there that can be effective for the kindergarten first grade population? And I just started looking at things online and ran into this all kids bike and it's a nonprofit Um, and they arranged through um Strider. They've got those bikes, the ones that you sit, you sit on and push with your feet and uh, so for four weeks you do that and then you just put pedal. They have pedal kits. You put the pedal kits on them and you don't even address them, you just put them on there and they just start picking up on it and it's just amazing to watch.
Speaker 5:And then the kid that's really never been able to ride a bike, to watch them when they figure it out. I mean it's incredible and they love it. I mean you know, and the first graders are, hey, are we riding bikes? No, that's a kindergarten program, you guys are riding bikes at home. But I really like that and I'd love to be able, because we also have a bike path that is on our property. And then I told you we have a trail system too, and so I'd love to be able to figure out how, you know, first I need to get an outbuilding, but I'd love to be able to just have the kids be able to bike. We can go for a bike ride, for class, and just drive through the trails and on the bike trail and and then eventually, you know, do it as a reward system and go to our state park has a really nice bike path and through there, um, with kindergarten, no heck no with the older kids.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, all right, I just.
Speaker 5:I would like to evolve it further.
Speaker 1:I gotcha, where, um, where do you get the bikes from? Again, like how do they bring them to you, or no?
Speaker 5:all kids bike? Yeah, they. They ship them to us now. Um, they can help you or they can put you in touch with people that donate a lot of money. At that point they had exhausted all their resources and had no money available. And I was talking to my principal about it. And our PTO does an amazing job raising money. They do this Glowdash thing I don't, it's a whole, it's all done by email. And they raised $50,000 in one year. This glow dash thing I don't, it's a whole, it's all done by email. And and and uh, they raised $50,000 in one year.
Speaker 5:And my principal had mentioned to the president that I wanted to start a bike program and and she said, tell them to present it at one of our meetings. I presented. At the meeting they gave me $6,000 and I got 30 bikes, 30 helmets, 30 pedal kits. That's great. And this year I'm using the sixth grade leadership class so that because I'll walk over from mill side, because I like to do it inside, because if I get bad weather and then I have to move those bikes into my gym and I'm using them outside on the gravel you know I'm going to goof up my gym floor so I do it completely inside, so I walk over from millside with them. The sixth graders will have everything ready and be fitting them as soon as they walk through the door, and it'll just be a little more efficient.
Speaker 5:That's great, yeah try and get 30 kindergartners on it on little bikes by yourself yeah, exactly, well, we had.
Speaker 1:I know I've told you we had a program, that it was. I believe it was a, I think it was a state program. But, um, I took a one-day class, um, just teaching, well, you know, as an instructor, taking a few people around on bikes and just going over all the safety things and all the rules of the road and all stuff, and then then we would get a bike trailer for two weeks and we'd have kids on our. Well, I had two things I had an obstacle course on our basketball courts, cause we had a couple of basketball courts together and they we had signs, you know they have to stop at the stop sign and get up as well.
Speaker 1:They have to signal and they have to do all this. They have to signal and they have to do all this, all this stuff, and then once they kind of pass that, uh, not not really test, but kind of they can go on the big, like it's our, it's our bus ramp is right there, so they can go on the bus ramp and that's, and actually, let's see the bus ramp. There was, I think, like one fifth of a mile, so five laps is a mile, Okay, so, but they can go on there and they had scooters too. So it was. It was great. We actually dealt with the older boys and girls third, fourth and fifth but I like how you, I like how you're teaching kindergarten. Uh, that's great, Cause that's again, these are, these are life skills fishing.
Speaker 4:I'm not a. I'm not a big fisherman, I'm games like capture the flag and you call, you, put a hula hoop on each end and that's the jail. Oh, this is my soapbox moment. This is the only one I really have. We got to stop using the word jail, um for things. Um, I guarantee you your kids know somebody who one of your students has a family member, or somebody who they know who's in the real jail. And every time we play games that have a jail, well, we're just right.
Speaker 4:We're poking one of our students. We're not doing it on purpose, but we're poking them so and I used to do it, I used to call it jail. So you know I'm not holier than everybody else, but now I call it quicksand. It the same thing. It's a place you're stuck, you can't get out of it. And how do you always get out of jail and capture the flag teammate comes, gets you out, or you do a jail break, which is a felony, you know, but we do that. So I like quicksand. That's right. You get out of quicksand. Every cartoon I've seen. I've never seen quicksand in real life. But you know, someone throws your rope or they throw you a snake, and you know, and you pretend it's a rope, but Indiana Jones, cause he's scared of snakes and then they pull you out of the quicksand. So a helping hand takes you out of the quicksand.
Speaker 3:And honestly for me and it just kind of like speaks to like, like, what kind of like person like and what kind of T-fizzing teacher I am because, like, I just like to play. I know, and bowling is great because you have, like you can go for awards and trophies, you can go for like accolades. I'm not going to say I'm not going to it's. It's cool to say I'm in the hall of fame, I'm a professional, but even though I haven't gone bowling in like six months, but I've taught bowling and I one time did a PD and a Brooklyn high school and the hallway there's, I mean there's the Bowler's Ed, which I'm a Bowler's Ed specialist. So I have to give a shout out to and it's really the kind of thing where it's like are students going to be entertained for a long time? They will Like, if you have kids, if you have students, be like a pin setter and like keep score.
Speaker 3:It's great for small groups because they can, you can differentiate. Do they take one step? Do they take four step? Do they take four steps? Now, even days like, I've had students, you know, back in the day, you remember you would see a student hold one hand and they kind of like they don't really put their hand in it, like they just kind of like use two hands, like that's some of the best bowls in the world. And I'm like, so what if you get invited to a bowling party, a birthday party, like now you know what to do. So I think that's also a part of like physical literacy and phys ed, that a bowling is a good example of that too Not the only example, but it's also a good one to kind of like help roll that out. No pun intended.
Speaker 7:I guess for me it has become experiences and I think that's the kids getting excited coming out today Like I don't know what amazing race challenge we're going to have today, like it might be a really super tough one. Sometimes they don't love it, you know what I mean, yeah, but I think at the end of the day they, they, they appreciate even in the moment they're not enjoying. Looking for those three packing peanuts and it's a little windy, you know what I mean and they're kind of blowing. It's like okay, you got a 30 second break timeout, like those peanuts hit the ground and you know that kind of thing. So that's that's become exciting, to get those things planned out for the kids. And when I go over some of the instructions and I just see the looks on the faces and they're starting to think and how can we get this done? I mean that's, that's become the big thing. So I think for me it has become like the experiences. But it didn't happen like that overnight, you know what I mean, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, I didn't mean to steal your answer, but it sounds like it sounds like again we're on the same page with that stuff. You know I I have students that you know I'll see. I work at the, the local arena, so I'll see him in a hockey game or something or a concert, and they're in, you know, high school or college now and I actually have students that are way older than that, but these are the ones I see and they'll be like oh man, I remember that. You know, again that shoot ball tournament and again they're not gonna remember. I say this all the time and I feel like a broken record, but they're not gonna remember. If you teach, I mean it's a good thing you teach them the, the parts of the body or the this and that, but they're going to remember your touch football unit. They're going to remember your amazing race.
Speaker 6:They're going to remember that kind of stuff and that's, and how much they loved pe you know, one thing that you know in my class, as a class culture that I have, is kids are basically running their own pe class here. They set up the equipment, they set up the volleyball nets, they get the equipment out, they know how to open up the bins, they know how to put equipment away, they take care of the equipment as well and they just go and it's like magic, magic as part of our class culture. Students are definitely expected to. You know, set up for their own. You know game or sport that they're doing right, and what really helps in the classroom is that I'm already visualizing, you know, visually, like explaining and demonstrating to them, like how I want the setup to be right.
Speaker 6:Okay, well, we're playing flag football, right, we'll see that other cones are going to be on the sidelines and then make sure that you put these special cones for the end zones, you know? And or they're playing all to a frisbee, okay, well, you know, get the frisbees out so you can start warming up. This is my expectation. In three minutes, I would like to see all of you guys warming up by throwing and cashing a frisbee with a partner. Uh, so it's so beautiful that the kids just go out, they transition out, and I'm getting my hat, I'm already putting some you know sunblock, I'm getting a drink of water, right, and then by the time I get out and the kids are already like practicing, right, uh, and it's, and, and of course, I mean you're gonna see, you know some um, you know hiccups here and there.
Speaker 7:You know, some kids are probably going to be doing something else, but you know, if I see, if I don't see a hundred percent from them, all right, let's go back to the classroom and let's go over my expectations again I mean toss three is a really quick, easy game that I do which is just um and I use like gator skin ball, I like little fluff yarn balls, I've used um wiffle balls, sometimes tennis balls, and basically it's find a partner. You. You work on three throws and catches. Now it's the odd number three because somebody you know, somebody ends up with the ball, somebody doesn't.
Speaker 7:So the person with the ball has to walk around looking for a new partner that doesn't have a ball. The person that doesn't, that ends up without the ball, has to walk around looking for somebody with a ball. So yeah, they're working on throwing and catching. Yeah, they're working on kind of meeting new people or, if it's later in the year, finding new friends to work with. And it's a quick little throwing and catching game. I don't need a lot of space for it. If I have a bag of Gatorskin balls, which are usually pretty close because I use them so much, it's a quick game I can set up.
Speaker 1:So, yes, I'd love to. I really would love to see the Bills and the Lions in the Super Bowl, because neither of us have won it. You've never been there, your team's never been there. Of course, mine lost four in a row, so that was wonderful. So that would guarantee that somebody would take home the prize and it wouldn't be Kansas City.
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