Sunday, September 3, 2017

Great Start - Team Building

We had a great first week in 4B!  All the students were excited to start the year and get to know all their fourth grade classmates.  We did many team building activities and I was so impressed how well all the students worked together.  They were all willing to share their ideas and listen to others tells them about what they were thinking.

Our first activity was to help build a perch for Harry (a pom pom with eyes).  Students had to try to build the tallest perch from objects found in a bag.  Our tallest perch was 18 1/2 inches tall.


  



Our second challenge was to build the longest paper chain with your group.  Students could only use two sheets of paper and a foot of masking tape.  It was great to hear all the planning and strategies kids were using.  Students discussed their thoughts about the length of the strip of the paper, size of the loop, how small the piece of tape could be to still hold the loop, and how to divide up the jobs.  The final products were AMAZING!  Most of the chains were yards long.

The discussion after was even better where teams talked about strategies and how they persevered even when they saw other teams making their chains longer.  We also discussed how important it will be to work as a team this year.





It is looking like it is going to be a fabulous year in 4B! 

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