Hello!
Today I’m going to be talking a little about extracurricular activities as a TA.
During school times, there are
no organized activities, but when the students have recess, we are able to hang
out and play with them. The students typically always have a game of soccer
going on, and it’s common to also have a game of catch or some version of hide
and seek. The kids also play with jump ropes a lot, practicing going fast and
doing crossovers. They also like to play “l’horloge” where one person stands in
the middle, swinging a jump rope from one end in a circle close to the ground,
and the other students stand around them in a circle and jump over it when it
comes to them.
This trimester, I’m leading some
after-school extracurricular activities that should be really fun. The theme
for this section of activities, or APEs, is books. On Mondays, I help lead a
Recipe Book activity with the CMs (4th and 5th graders)
and we will be compiling a list of recipes and making them. Some recipes we are
going to be making include ants on a log, fruit salad, a regular salad, an
energy bar, and banana pops.
The rest of the days (Tuesdays,
Thursdays, and Fridays) I lead a puppets activity, where we will be
reading or listening to different fairy tales such as Red Riding Hood, Sleeping
Beauty, and Goldilocks. After we read the stories, we will make puppets for the
different characters and then put on a little play with them. I’m doing this
activity with CPs, CE1s, and CE2s (1st, 2nd, and 3rdgraders).
The first week, we decorated a cardboard theater for the plays.
Thanks so much for reading, and
I hope you have a wonderful day!
