Woodend Trip

Yesterday we went to Woodend, we played lots of games. Here are the games we played. We played this game with wooden ski's that had skipping ropes attached to them, it was really easy for our group because one of us would be at the front yelling "right, then left" and we would lift the foot that was called. We also played a game where we had two pool noodles and we were divided into two teams, then we were blind folded and had to find our way to the noodle and tag our opponent below the waste. It was really fun, but hard to go in the right direction. There was also this game with long black trays and we had to run a golf ball down them while they were next to each other, and had to get the golf ball into the pink cup without your skin or clothes touching the golf ball. There was also a really fun game that we played when we were on a log and we were in two teams again and everyone was trying to get to the opposite side of the log without touching any of the ground. My teams strategy was to ask one of the people from the other team to curl up in a ball on the log, then one of the people on my team would step over them to try to get past all of the people on the other team.  We also played a game where there was a big A frame about ten feet tall, and someone had to stand on the part that was going across it, the instructor told us to split up so half of us were on one side holding long ropes attaching to the top of the A frame and the other half was on the other side of the A frame. Then one half started to pull and the other side would start walking in one direction, and one of the legs on the A frame would move and the person standing on the A frame would move while the other people were pulling on it. Another fun activity was that we went to this station where there was a spray painted maze on the ground and, Well, it was kind of like battle ship but with humans instead of the game pieces. It was fun because you had other friends directing you around the spray painted board on the ground. It was really fun. I don't have much room to write any more so this is it for now!


Here are everyone's thoughts on the cooperative learning games:

Makenna - I was a little shy when I was with other grades because I'm not usually with other grades.

Katie-Lynn - it was fun but I was a little shy but then I got a little better because we worked together to get good.

Abby - I was a little bit shy too because I was the youngest one in my group.

Sebastian - I was a little bit nervous because when she (the instructor) would yell at the other people talking, I wasn't used to people yelling but then I got used to it.

Owen - it was a little awkward at first because I didn't know people at first but as we worked together I got to know them better.

Amy - it was weird because we had to go really close to people that we don't usually go partners with and we don't usually talk to a lot and we have to get really close to them on the log roll thing.

Robin - I was shy in my group too because I was with people that aren't in my class and it was frustrating when people were yelling and not listening to each other's ideas.

Kylee - I didn't really feel like I was in the group because the older kids were taking charge and not really including us.

Erika - I felt I wasn't really in the games because all the older kids were going first and I didn't get to play some of the games that I wanted to play and some of the people in my group were just not paying attention to me and not listening to Tyler's ideas and he had very brilliant ideas.

Dalton - I had a phenomenal day and it was really quite easy for me because I'm quick, small, and intelligent and I quickly found a way to get through the log roll.
      Ethan - Dalton was the only person to get across the log on both rounds.

Hailey - I think I had a good day because we were working as a team and trying to get things done.

Nathan - it was really hard on the lava thing because no one was hardly listening to anyone's ideas. People decided to go one way and another person decided to go the other way and got wrong. It was really hard for explaining our ideas. Everyone was shouting and everyone didn't get to explain their answers.

Dan - I had a good day but I felt I was left out of most of the activities. For the lava activity, no one would listen to my ideas and that made me really frustrated.

Tyler - It was kind of getting frustrating because even though I had a bunch of ideas that would probably work but the older kids wouldn't listen to me and they wouldn't even look at me and that's when I got really frustrated.

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Ethan - It was pretty good but when we were doing that A-frame game where we had to pull the ropes, me and Dalton were pulling it to balance it in the back but people kept pulling it to almost make it fall. It was pretty good in the log one but not when I fell on my head.

Cassandra - it was fun just always 2 or 3 people would take charge and not listen to other people's ideas. I had some ideas and I tried to tell them but they just kept doing it their way and it didn't really work.

Christina - it was fun but on some activities when I was trying to help tell somebody some ideas, nobody wanted to listen to me because they were kind of fooling around and being silly.

Isaac - I think it was kind of easy and hard. Like in the log cross thing I had some really good ideas and I think Colby and I were pretty good on the lava one working together and sharing ideas. Everyone had really good ideas on the A-frame.

Dawson - I think it was kind of easy on the lava one when me and Bryce had good ideas and we all worked on it. We helped a lot of people across. On the log one, I had a good idea and no one really listened to me. Also on the tray game I had a really good idea but people didn't really do it.

Justin - I felt very left out because nobody even bothered to listen to me. I just felt like I was nothing to them.

Maxx - I thought it was really good. Our group strategized a lot and we did really good. We worked together and stuff.

Miss Hall -