Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Every year, my school goes to Norval for a team building day. When we arrived, the grades were split so you were working with your own grade. The counsellor started my grade off with the Inuit Blanket Toss, where a person lies in the middle of the blanket and everyone around the outside pulls the blanket causing the person in the middle to fly in the air. Next, there was a 14ft wall that each person had to get over using just our own bodies. Putting all our minds together, we managed to get everyone over the wall. Soon, it was snack time. Granola bars, with juice...yum. After our bellies were filled, we participated in another activity. For this, someone was strapped in a harness and 4 different ropes were attached to them. Then, there were 4 groups, each group had to control one of the ropes that were tied onto the person. Plastic balls were put over the ground and we had to move the person in the middle by pulling different ropes at different times, to retrieve the balls. After that was lunch, a time to reflect on the activities we did with our peers. In the afternoon, we had a drum circle. Every person got their own drum, and we made music based on the rythms, and worked together as a whole. This day was extremely worth while, and its sad that this is my last year to do it. I know that the grade 5's who will be in grade 6 next year will have a blast.

1 comment:

  1. Cassie, since you still have time to work on this the quality of your post will improve if you edit in your paragraph breaks. Also, this is a lot of retell - don't forget to balance it out with relate and reflect.

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