HELLO! The long silence is broken....

November 13

We missed Danny and Teacher Amber in class this day. (Thank you to Teacher Amber for researching bowling options and printing off permission slips!)

The weather was cold but beautiful! So we were thankfully able to be active outside.

We were a little short to do these two running games justice, but we tried anyway: Missionary Tag and Flying Dutchmen. (2 of my own grandma's favorites!) They were new games to most of our students.

In Missionary Tag, pairs are linked at the elbow and spread out from the others. One 'it' chases another around the area. Whenever the one being chased wants to, they can link up on one side of the pairs - but that 'bounces' the person on the opposite side of the pair off and they become the one being chased.

In Flying Dutchmen, again, 2 stay out from the group. The group is holding hands in a circle and the separate 2 hold hands, walking around the circle. The one nearest the circle taps the hands of 2 in the circle, and both pairs run opposite ways around the circle to get back into the hole first. The hardest part of this game is remembering which pair gets the inside loop and which pair must veer out!

Merry began to create a new game that I thought resembled Truck-and-trailering (though backwards), Eliana thought should be called "Worm" or "Lizard" - because lizards lose their tails and regrow, and Maddie suggested "Nose crusher". Merry preferred the name "Bulldozer". She would run up behind someone with her arms outstretched, grab their shoulders and push them, running, towards another. Once they caught up to someone, the new person became the front of 'it', and put their hands out while the first person (at the back of the line) broke off the chain and could be chased again. Maddie was a great sport with what you can already guess happened, but we decided it was time to move on.

Kaela, Maddie and Trinity climbed a tree with assistance (up into and down out of the tree), from Eliana, Merry and Teacher Liesl.

Once all were out of the tree again, Merry, Kaela, Maddie and Trinity tested their balance as "tight rope walkers" on a sturdy metal gate. (2 at a time of: Eliana, Merry, Trinity, Teacher Liesl and maybe Maddie too, held the walkers' hands to keep them steady and safe.)


For next week: Please bring back permission slips, $5, and make sure you're wearing socks for bowling!