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Saturday, October 17, 2009

Outdoor Explorers, Saturday 17 October 2009

Outdoor Explorers is our Saturday Outdoor Education class for 6- and 7-year-olds (Grade 1 and 2).

I'm really enjoying working with this group of boys. The class puts them in new situations and gives them new challenges, and I've been very impressed by the way they co-operate, communicate, and take on longer games activities than they normally would in school.

This week we started with Cones Orienteering, a running-and-finding game that challenges the players to search carefully, remember several pieces of separate information, record information, run, and communicate.

After that, we worked on our knots. Last week's knot was the Reef Knot. This week we practiced the Figure-8 Loop.



Samuel, Andy and Fung share their knowledge.


Samuel pushes hard right to the end of the game.


Working together.


Sharing and learning.


Remembering and recording.


Fung shows off his Reef Knot. Look at the pride on that face! I have the best job in the world.


(We took a lot more pictures of this class. I'll have them on a CD by Wednesday.)






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