Handicapped Athletes

Monday (01/08/2011)

a) Handicapped Athletes.
 Why are some people handicapped?
 The kids started by talking about strangers. Then, I led them to cases which occurred especially in India. Kids were kidnapped and then they were abused and then brought to places as beggars. They would begged for money. Thus, these kids are handicapped.
 Some are born naturally handicapped since birth.
 Some are due to accidents.
 Some are due to fighting and etc.
 Can handicapped athlete do things successfully? Some kids said yes while others said no. About 50% of the kids.

b) Video Clips
 The kids watched video clips on Disabled Athletes. There were those participtated in Olympics, some doing Marathons, some swimming, some javelin, some Disc Throwing and some even scuba diving!
 The kids were amazed and then started saying that they had to work harder than us! Imagine the wheelchair athletes fell down when racing, how is he going to stand again? He needs time unlike normal people.
 We also watched a song “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” for the determined people of the world; either handicapped or normal people.
 Next, we watched a clip on a Corn Maze. The kids felt that it was exciting. Then, we saw another clip on how kids took the blocks to make a maze for its hamster.
 We also watched a clip on Domino where it involved a team setting up 16,000 pieces of Dominos! Wow!

c) Game: The Maze.
* The girls pretended to be handicapped with no legs. So, they crawled and took the chairs to arrange into a maze. I guided them. Some ways were blocked while some free. Then, we added a tunnel cloth. Then, the participants took part by blindfolding their eyes. Some found it difficult to crawl through the maze and then the tunnel. Some found it easy. As for second round, a few kids helped me to cover the maze with black cloth. It was more challenging! They had fun!