Transition

Our last 2 transition sessions have continued in the same groups as previous weeks.  We completed our last remaining activity, before we started a new round of activities.

Nerida ran more physical/sports activities. First we played Snowballs and Snow Creatures. One child held a tennis ball (snowball) to symbolise that he/she was a snow creature. The snow creature had to chase the children and touch them with their snowball (no throwing or the snowball would melt), which would turn them into a snow creature. That snow creature would go to the snow factory and get a snowball and convert more children! The last child remaining was declared the golden child with the power of the sun, and they then chased the snow creatures and melted them. Each child who melted had to put their snowball back in the snow factory and chase more snow creatures to melt them. After this fun warm up game, children got into groups (a prep and two grade ones or twos) and each group got some tennis balls. They worked together to create a show or performance. The aim was twofold: to get to know other children and work as a team; and to creatively use tennis balls. 

Genevieve has been running team work and get to know you and team work games.  First of all, we tried to untangle a human knot.  We arranged ourselves into groups of about 10, stood shoulder to shoulder in a circle, stretched our hands out and grabbed the hands of 2 other people.  Then we had to try and untangle ourselves so we ended up standing in a circle without letting go of our hands.  This involved a lot of listening, giving each other advice (and occasionally ignoring the advice), trial and error, and trying not to fall over in a big heap.

We also played a game called 2 truths.  Everyone thought of 2 things about themselves that the other people in the group didn't know about them, and also made up 1 thing about themselves that was not true.  Each person had a turn at telling their 3 things to the audience, who then had to figure out from their face and voice (and how well they know the person) which of their three things was not true.