WARM UPS!

What is a warm up?

As in sports players have to warm up before a game, students also need to warm up before learning.
Warming up prepares us and gets us in the mood for learning.
It also helps us to feel comfortable in the classroom, it helps us to socialize and communicate.

Warm ups can be not only funny but also annoying.

In my case I have never been in an annoying warm up...but every warm up has pros and cons...

For example the fist warm up we had last class: Massiel's

"Change if..."

The game was very fun, very vivid, people moved a lot, we had a good time BUT, not all of the students followed the rules correctly, according to the directions everyone who had the mentioned characteristic had to move, but not everyone did...maybe because they were affraid of standing in the moddle of the circle and continuing giving another order...

The things were a little different with the following warm up...

"Do what I do and say what I say...Say and do the opposite of what I say"

This game was also very funny and vivid, we had a lot of movement, we needed team work and sync...
the only problem I could find was that we needed more spance and it was just a lil bit noisy...

Finally, there are a lot more warm ups that we have not played yet...hope we can play more soon and continue learning more about this kind of activities...considering the importance of warm ups, every teacher and future teacher must have the abbility to perform correctly this activities, they help to improove student's learning and socialization skills in the clasroom