Friday, May 22 we had a mini-Olympics day for the kindergarten classes. We took buses with our classes to the park behind City Hall. There we had a banner, a microphone, and all sorts of goodies lugged from the buses. We split up the ecp 5, 6, and 7 homeroom classes into the blue team and red team. Each homeroom had their own animal, which was incorporated into the cheering aspect. My homeroom were blue team and dogs, so we had animal ears that were supposed to look like a dog but actually looked like cat ears.
We started with a cheer/dance and "torch" lighting - it was made out of felt.
Our first event was a race to where two teachers stood with a stick that had onion rings on dangling clips. They had to spin 5 times, then run to the onion rings and had to eat one without using their hands. The best part was that after they finished they would mostly run back to their team at the starting line instead of taking two steps forward to get their hand stamped as the winner.
Another event was an obstacle course where the kids jumped over a hurdle road on a wheelie horse, did a roll, had to crawl through a tube, then run to the end and eat a gummy worm out of a plate of powdered sugar. This was super fun because at least a quarter of the kids didn't want to do it and had to be carried through.
They also had one where they had to flip as many tiles as they could to their teams' color.
We had a tug-of-war: one for students and one for the teachers. The teachers also ended up having a jump rope contest. I'm pretty proud of the fact that the blue team teachers got to 16 jumps altogether. Especially considering how long ago I jumped rope and how I was always more of a solo jumper than a group jumper.
It was a lot of fun but it made for a long day, especially since in the afternoon we had the preliminary speech contest to see who was going to compete in the contest coming up in the end of June.
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