Description of the classroom

There are three gyms at Whiteaker Middle School. In the two lower gyms the flooring is wood and the walls are painted two shades of blue with a line of orange between the two colors. The colors represent the school colors. There isn’t a lot on the walls besides a few posters of different muscles and the six week grades posted. The uppers gym’s floor is wood as well. In one corner of the room there is a rock wall and in another corner is some gymnastics equipment. On one side of the gym there is cardio and muscular strength machines.
There are three teachers that teach in one school period and each teacher has a gym. There is one storage room down stairs and one storage room upstairs for equipment. One of the lower gyms is a lot bigger than the other lower gym. The larger gym contains bleachers and that is parents and spectator sit during school games. There is a boy’s locker room and a girl’s locker room off of the largest gym. When the students enter the large gym from the locker room they start to walk around the gym counter clockwise. When the P.E. teachers come out they have the students sit in their roll spots where each student sits in a row of six. This is done alphabetically so when taking roll the teacher just look for the missing holes of the rows.
The atmosphere of the gym is at time loud but the students look like they are enjoying their self’s and enjoying the social aspect of physical education. Most of the time everyone participates in the activities and they look like they are having fun doing it. This makes me excited to teach physical education at this grade level because most of the students still enjoy physical education. I think this is the perfect age to teach the students about the benefits of exercising while they still enjoy it. I feel that it is crucial to start the education of physical activity, health, and fitness at an age when the students are still enjoying physical education. This is also a good age to have the students try knew activities before the students get too influenced by feeling stupid or dump about trying a new activity. Games that would be good to start is cooperating games where the point of the games are to get to know each other, working together, problem-solving and supporting each other.