gym class, minus the stinky uniforms

On Tuesdays this month, I'll be co-teaching the pre-schoolers' gym class.  At SLP (my school), gym class is an hour-long period after lunch where the pre-schoolers (age 5 or so) play games and stuff, but it doesn't involve changing clothes or copious sweating.  At first, I was kind of indifferent about teaching gym class; I didn't think much about it.

But then I started to make a list.

During one of my observations today, I started writing down ideas for gym class activities.  Drawing on my extensive P.E. and youth group repertoire, I came up with some pretty sweet ideas, including:

• Mother, may I?
  
• where the wild wind blows
  
• the winking game (my personal junior high youth group favorite)
  
• bull wrestling (holla, Katie Snow!)
  
• a challenge whereby two teams brainstorm to come up with a way for 8 people to support themselves with only 5 feet total on the ground....then 4 feet...then 3...then 2... (that's from my post-high-school Jamaica mission trip)
  
• some variation on TV tag (animal tag?  English-words-starting-with-S tag?)
• blob tag (another highlight of my junior high youth group experience...especially when it involved linking arms with a cute boy.  SCORE!)
• duck duck goose (which, incidentally, is called "duck duck grey duck" in Minnesota...did you know that?  it is!  Minnesotans are kind of wackadoo.)
• car, dog, fire hydrant (again, a junior high youth group brainchild; it's an adaptation of rock, paper, scissors--except that it involves your entire body)

Y'all.  I am getting so excited about teaching this gym class.  What does that say about me?  I'm pretty sure it says I have a very refined sense of fun.