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Thursday, March 19, 2015

Who put that I in Team?

I typically hate doing "team building" activities, but I forced some mandatory fun on the children today, and they seemed to enjoy themselves.

My afternoon classes were instructed to build towers from marshmallows and dry spaghetti today, and I was actually able to have them do it. Each team had 20 minutes to build, and the goal was to create the tallest tower that would stand freely at the end. Sounds stupid, but they had a blast. The team leader was not supposed to participate in building- just give instructions. The team members were to build with no planning. The whole thing was to demonstrate how to give and follow directions, how to work together and how to fulfill the requirements of a nearly impossible task. Marshmallows (even those that do not melt in mid-day) aren't really touted for their great structural integrity. 

It was stupid hot again, and I left the building a sweaty mess with marshmallow in my hair, but a shower and a few glasses of iced tea have put me right again. 

Whelp, that was fun. Now what? 

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