Hello and welcome to the Daily Phys Ed podcast for Monday the 30th of April. My name's Nathan Horne from ifiz.com and this is the Daily Phys Ed podcast, the daily physical education podcast where I share with you reflections on my teaching practice, tips, techniques, strategies, technology tools and all other things physical education. Thank you so much for joining me for another week of the Daily Phys Ed podcast. I hope you had a fantastic weekend wherever you are in the world.
And after last week, the weather being so fantastic here, it was back to rainy, wet and cold in Vancouver over the weekend and today. The weather is supposed to improve the rest of this week, so looking forward to hopefully being able to get back outside and enjoying the great outdoors as this week progresses. But for the time being today, we were second side in the gym. I saw some grade twos this morning and some grade fours and some grade threes this afternoon before having a PHE physical health education department meeting this afternoon.
The great twos this morning were continuing to work on some target games with those students. They had the experience of taking part in some floor curling a couple of weeks ago and they talked about the scoring method for that. We've been using that same scoring method for some of our target games that we've been taking part in during their lessons. Today was using some different equipment.
So I had one group using beanbags, one group using badminton shutters, another group using rubber rings. But the whole aim of all the games was to get the object as close as they could to the target or the button as it is in curling. Now, because of the different types of equipment, it required the students to be, I guess, critical thinkers in the way that they were going to send that object. Was it best to throw it, slide it, spin it, flip it?
How was the best way for you to be able to throw that object to get it closer to that target? Now, in the same way that they did with curling, if their team was able to get more than one object closer than their opponent's team, they would score, obviously, more points, but it was the closest object to the target than the other team. So if they got one object closer than the other team, they'd get one point, two objects closer, two points, and so on and so forth. So they took part in that.
And one of the modifications that we made as the lesson went on was that if you won the round or the end, then the next round you were able to move the target either closer or further away to your advantage. So it was encouraging them to get that win and then use that to put it in a position where they thought they were going to have the best chance of winning again. So that was a great two this morning. Then some great fours throughout the middle of the day.
They're doing some invasion games. In the last lesson, I was doing a game performance assessment instrument with those students. So I was looking at their effective passes and effective decision-making and ineffective decision-making, as well as looking at their skill execution. Today, I had them doing a pass map.
So they were still playing their same invasion game, their map ball game, and this time the students were watching a player on another team who was playing the game and they were trying to put marks on the pass map. Now, every time the player received a ball, they put an X on the pass map where they received it and an arrow showing the direction and length of that pass. Now, we're going to use that map at a later time to try and determine how that player was influencing the game. Now, at the bottom of the sheet, which you'll see if you've downloaded it from lifeisade.com and the resources section before, there were some questions about looking at the map, what could you assume that the player was doing and how it must have influenced the game.
Now, if I did that straight away with the students, then they were using a memory from what they actually saw when the player was playing. My idea with it this time was to look at it at a different time, so to then go back and look at it maybe in a week's time or a few days' time and see if they can identify if that player was making attacking passes, whether that player was doing more work in the offensive or defensive end of the court, whether they were getting a lot of possessions. So seeing if they were able to identify, looking at the game map, what influence that player had in the game. So I'll be doing that with them in a few days of time and get them to reflect back on that.
And hopefully that will form part of their portfolio. So that will be one of the pieces that we put into their portfolio for the year. Great freeze this afternoon. We're in Gym C and they were doing some fitness workouts and a little bit of just dance.
And this afternoon I had a PHG department meeting with my department where we were discussing the upcoming PHG Canada National Conference, which will be taking place May 17th to 19th, which I am super excited to go to. And I'm also really happy that all seven members of my PHG department will be attending that conference. So a really fantastic opportunity for our whole team to get together and to improve our professional knowledge and learning. So for today, that is about all for the Daily Fizzade podcast.
I'm looking forward to the weather getting a little bit better this week, being able to get outside again and continue some of our striking fielding games with our grade 3s and then some more invasion game stuff with our grade 4s and 5s before we get into some gymnastics in a couple of weeks. So we'll be heading off to Celestine Popper, which is a local gymnastics centre to work with there before a week and give our students some exposure to some gymnastics. So until tomorrow, my name is Nathan Horne from myphizzade.com. This has been the Daily Fizzade podcast.