Kids at Play

There are only two more weeks left in my "Art Exploration: Masters and Apprentices" after school club.  I am already scheduled to teach a sports/gym games club on Tuesdays.  I'm calling it "Kids at Play."  I was hoping to reorganize the ages because the second graders' coordination and motor skills are significantly more advanced than the kindergartners and first graders, but the groupings are set. 

I've made a list of games that I remember playing in gym class and have surveyed my son and his friends to include a few of their favorites.  I am also hoping to have hula hoops and jump ropes available for anyone who doesn't want to participate in the scheduled game.  If I learned nothing else from my art club, "The best laid schemes o' mice an' men gang aft agley"!

Securing equipment and gym space for the club is going to be an additional challenge, though at least I won't have the tension of sharing a classroom as I did with the art class.  Unfortunately, despite my best efforts to maintain the room--and as a teacher who often "lent" her room to SAT courses and summer school classes, I was inordinately conscientious--she complained on an almost daily basis.  The worst part--she never once mentioned her complaints directly to me.  Instead, she complained to the after school coordinator.  There are few personality traits I find more annoying than this sort puerile passive-aggression.