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[melwil]

For those who helped yesterday, the answer is inconclusive. However, Matt and I have planned our old age. I'll be crazy cat women, he'll be sitting in a rocking chair on the front porch with a shot gun. Yes, both of us being sick at the same time has made us go insane.

For I am still ill. Not as bad as last week, but still coughing enough that people stare at me in shopping centres.

I've got this weeks assignments done and I'm now trying to wrangle some statistics into some kind of meaning. Then writing a Phys Ed unit on AFL - so all you AFL nuts on my flist, if you've got any ideas please pass them on. Then I'm off to prac and a semester closer to graduation.

I promised to cook a Mexican roast tonight, which both Matt and I really enjoy. Unfortunately it means a fair bit of cooking, but it really is worth it in the end. Last night it was a gorgeous ginger and lamb stir fry that Matt cooked.

Okay. Off to play with fun statistics.

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[reblog.livejournal.com]

what sort of stuff do you want? we did AFL in high school for all of two lessons - one was learning all the positions and drawing their names onto the field, the other was playing a game. it sucked, and i wished that my sport got as much attention as all the others did.

[wierdgurl30.livejournal.com]

Ashley still recons Shaun will be on the rocking chair with the shot gun ... I can see it too ...

heh - I gave ashley a bruise tonight on his cheekbone :)

get better and all :)

[melwil.livejournal.com]

I want to create a full unit between 4 and 10 weeks for an imaginary year 6 classroom. The sport part of it would be about the skills and the positions and the rules, but because it would be integrated, I would also look at things like the clubs, the songs, fans, history, famous players etc. I'm actually really excited about it.

I suppose what I want to know is, what would you want to learn about AFL if you were in Grade 6?

[reblog.livejournal.com]

dude, everything. the clubs and the colours and the songs is an awesome idea for kids that age, but obviously they still want to know about the positions and stuff (well, ok, the ones who are into AFL already probably know a bit, so they want to know all there is on the positions and stuff). integrating it in with current players is good, i think - my strongest memory of football in grade six was knowing that jason dunstall was the greatest full forward there was. um, yeh, history's also a good and interesting thing, especially in brisbane where your club is founded so much on the bears/fitzroy history.

can i think of anything you haven't? possibly not. however, if i was a kid in your fictional class, i would think you the greatest teacher ever. because that's totally the sort of lesson i was hoping for when we did AFL, and i still haven't gotten over the fact that it wasn't.

um, oh, something about the different levels - AFL and state leagues and down to the junior leagues. something to make the omgsuperhero footballers relate to their own worlds. and encourage the girls to join a local league, please ;)

your alyson icon is awesome, btw.

[melwil.livejournal.com]

You've pretty much confirmed what I though, which is great (thank you so much.)

I'm pretty excited about writing this unit, actually. I just wish I had a real class to work it out on.

And *g* thank you about my Aly icon. I quite like it too.

[faithlesskat.livejournal.com]

Is it wrong that the first thing that comes to mind is to teach the girls how to pick out the hot players... and lessons on why eddie mcguire is a twat!!

Seriously look at kicking drills, hand passes, taking marks, playing touch afl, try and get your hands on an AUSKICK program that will do most of the work for you.

And if there are any smartarses in the class who give you the shits... then you make them do ball bouncing drills. They can stop until the can run and bounce the ball at the same time. (Don't worry I'm yet to meet a PE teacher who could do it.)