Wednesday, 1 June 2016

Musica Intervalos and Ultimate Frisbee!

Is it interesting to know what I'm teaching my students? I don't know. In secondaria (high school - grade 7 to 12), for the past month or so, we've been working on musical intervals. The space between 2 notes. So if you look at 2 notes on a staff, you should be able to sing the correct difference between them without first hearing it on a piano. Most students can draw and label intervals with no problems, but listening to them and correctly labeling them is hard, and singing them is virtually impossible (so we don't do the singing of them very much right now). Here's the test they had to do this week! The Spanish instructions are VERY basic, don't judge my bad sentences.

In my gym classes, I have introduced Frisbee in the last couple weeks, and last week, once I thought they could catch and throw somewhat adequately, we started ultimate frisbee! They were alll skeptical at first, because it's not soccer! Here, literally they spend 98% of gym classes playing soccer, and a tiny bit volleyball and track and field. Which is alright for the people that like soccer, but not all of them do! Anyways, all of my students got into ultimate frisbee, ALL of them! Now my 3 frisbees that I have here are booked all the time, they go home with students every evening, they're taken at recess, and people come borrow them from my house on the weekends! My family will be sending more soon:) 


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