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04-18-2000, 02:40 PM
Fran Rush <franrush@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi All!
Somehow, I find it difficult to connect spiritual health with words
like \"sportsmanship, compromise, fair-play\" because spiritual connotes
relgious to me. But--having said that, here in Austin, thanks to the
original work by Jim DeLine (it was published in \"JOHPERD\" a few years
ago), many of us do a \"focus\" word unit. When \"sportsmanship\" is the
topic, cooperative games are played to illustrate what sportsmanship
really is. Many of the chosen games were from the \"New Games\" books.
Example> communication. We played the team version of \"Rock, Paper,
Scissors. The team decides which symbol to use. The teams face each
other and chant \"Roe-shambo\" (or however it's spelled). All students do
the symbol chosen. The team that wins chases the other team. If
tagged, the taggee joins the other team. Quite often, it took a lot of
practice to play this game well, because some students didn't hear the
symbol decided upon and would do any symbol--which confused the
opposite team.
I remember that Jim use to have his students shake hands before
playing one-on-one games, and thank each other for playing with them.
It added a very nice demension to the classes of students who may have
been more comfortable fighting.
Fran Rush
Austin, Tx. (found one station in town where
gas is only $1.26!!!)
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Hi All!
Somehow, I find it difficult to connect spiritual health with words
like \"sportsmanship, compromise, fair-play\" because spiritual connotes
relgious to me. But--having said that, here in Austin, thanks to the
original work by Jim DeLine (it was published in \"JOHPERD\" a few years
ago), many of us do a \"focus\" word unit. When \"sportsmanship\" is the
topic, cooperative games are played to illustrate what sportsmanship
really is. Many of the chosen games were from the \"New Games\" books.
Example> communication. We played the team version of \"Rock, Paper,
Scissors. The team decides which symbol to use. The teams face each
other and chant \"Roe-shambo\" (or however it's spelled). All students do
the symbol chosen. The team that wins chases the other team. If
tagged, the taggee joins the other team. Quite often, it took a lot of
practice to play this game well, because some students didn't hear the
symbol decided upon and would do any symbol--which confused the
opposite team.
I remember that Jim use to have his students shake hands before
playing one-on-one games, and thank each other for playing with them.
It added a very nice demension to the classes of students who may have
been more comfortable fighting.
Fran Rush
Austin, Tx. (found one station in town where
gas is only $1.26!!!)
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