Sports in education

Sport is a tool for the formation, development and improvement of the physical capacities of a person, allowing the interaction of social, emotional and physical aspect of human well-being.

Sport is a good tool to teach to the young people valves and virtues as justice, loyalty, overcoming, coexistence, respect, friendship, teamwork, discipline, responsability and tolerance.

Childre who practice a sport tend to have higher self-esteem and suffer less depression and anxiety.

In my oponion, the subject of Physical Education is one of the most important, since aspect that are not mencioned in other subjects are taught in PE. In addition children need to move and do exercise, because childhood obesity is very present in the school of our country.

Sports should be done outside school hours, with friends or family, doing activities such as soccer, basketball, tennis, cycling, hicking, etc.

The sport in school is not sufficient for children who are in ages of growth, but there are children who like physical activities and enjoy with them. However, others do not like it, therefore parents must
encourage each child make them, since they can have problems of overweight in the adulthood.

Ramírez Perdiguero, F. J. (2004). Los Valores del deporte en la Educación. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Deportes.

Vázquez, B. (2001): Deporte y educación, bases educativas de la actividad física y el deporte en B. Vázquez y cols. (eds.)  Madrid: Síntesis.

Toothpicks

After a theoretical class about toothpicks and the different uses that we can give. From to remove food of the teeth, to use them for the food... For groups, we use our imagination to create one or you figure several with the toothpicks.
At first we did not know what to do because in 5 or ten minutes you have to do a thing that you have never done before. We try to make a ship with the toothpicks and a rubber hair but the final result was more similar to an hedgehod than a ship. For that we decided to make a hedgehodin a ship that we finally get using scotch tape.
Here you have our work but another group crate in the floor a Eiffel Tower with tourists, a starts in a paper, a house...

Boxes of life

I wanted to talk in this post about the lectura "boxes of life." It is because I think that could be an interested idea to work with our children with the intention to create some bonds between them because they will be schoolmates, maybe, for a long period of time.
This project came up with a group of pre-school in which there were a big diversity of cultures and grow the needed to créate a new form to make that all of them know about the others and the styles of life that they have. It is a useful methods to make children more tolerant with the others and to learn about the experiences besides to make new friends.
Through this boxes that content very different stories, it is starting to appear new inquisitiveness relations with the life of another children. All of them can learn by themselves and not through a book, thanks of the inquisitiveness that arise from the different lectures, they learn about the themes that the teacher have to gave according to the syllabus of all the subjects but in a more dynamic way.
I think tthat this activity is really interested also for the teacher because she or he know more about their pupils and can make activities that interested they a llot or maybe give the clases attending to the things that they really like.
We can do also another types of activities seems like this to work with the children. I think that tecaher have to know that 'what we learned with emotion is learned better. Neuroscience has shown that emotion is an excellent ingredient for cooking meaningful learning.' (Sánchez, E., 2016). It is not the same when you learn something that you considered boring tan another that you like it. For that we considere vital think always abour the concerns, interest... of the children.

Sánchez, E. (2016). Estrategias metodológicas innovadoras. En Sánchez, J., Ruiz, J. y Gómez, M. (Eds). Tecnologías de la Comunicación y la información aplicadas a la educación (pp. 161-173). Madrid: Editorial Síntesis, S.A.

Why did we choose this categories?

We divided our school experience in five categories.
The first is methodology: our exams were tradictional, question-answer. For them, we usually studied learn by heart, even nowdays. The marks could be qualitatives or quantitatives. Over the years this changed, the government gave us laptops and we used to do different activities, more participative, interactive, creative... In which team work was guaranteed.
The following is attitudes: on the one hand, we find good memories like the moments that we lived in the school playing and helping our classmates. On the other hand, we also appreciate bad memories, because some of us cried when we went to school, we didn't like to wear uniform, and we also had strick teachers, despite being demanding, they were supportive and attentive.
The third one is extracurricular activities: it was our favourite category and the most that we missed. In it, we have included the school trips, the Andalucia's day, the First Comunion, the End of School...
The penultimate is relationships: if we compare when we were at school with present situation, we can see some changes. For example at school, we were closer to teachers, students who were in another classes were our enemies... However, we don't have any relation with our teachers nowdays and there are less conflicts. In both, we have lived funny moments and we have made good friendships.
The last one is types and stages: although all of us have gone to different schools, I mean public school, private school and public supported by the state; all have received the same education being the stages also the same: preschool, primary school, secundary school...

School Experience.

First of all we decided to divide some words of the list in five groups. The first one is methodology where we can find for example the exams, marks, the homework, traditional methods, participative methods, learn by heart… the second group is attitudes, where we can point out the uniform, the creativity or the good and bad memories… The next group is extracurricular activities where we can highlight for  example the school trips, the peace day, the Andalucía's day, that is to say that they celebrate the principal days during a year… Another group is the relationships where we can find friendships, games, keeping in touch with teacher, love… and the last group, where we can point out the public school, the public school supported by the state  and  the nursery school is types and stages. In this group we can also find the differences between preschool, primary school, secondary school…

Once we made the groups, we decided to represent this idea in a labyrinth. Why have we used this idea? Because we think because we think that acquire all these skills is a long and complex road. We are also agree

 that all these skills are joined among themselves, that is to say that they complement each other. Although we also have to say that there are ways without exit, which don´t lead to any side.

At the end of the road, we have decided to put school. In our opinion the school is one of the most important aspects in the child´s life, because it is where the children  develop their  first skills and where they establish the first social relationships. We would return to the school if we had the chance, because it was one of the nicest stages of our life and it marked our life and even our personality.