Time flies...

WOW time flies when you are having fun... aka so busy that you don't know what day it is... just kidding I know it is Monday! 

Today has been a great day after a slightly overwhelming end to last week but I am determined to make the most of my learning opportunities and today was a new day and a fresh start! 

I have just realised that this is my last week (EVER) of pretending to be a teacher! Next week I will still be at Ranzau but hopefully, with the other teachers permission, having a wander around the other classes and seeing what they are up to and how they do it. Then even more hopefully I will have a job next year so instead of pretending to be a teacher I will be a real life teacher! WOW how terrifying and exciting... and still a wee way off yet! 

Today we began a new BP challenge.... Emergency Stretcher:
Scenario: A young child in your tramping party has been injured and needs to be taken to safety urgently. All that is available to make the stretcher are newspapers, string and sellotape. The trek out will be difficult and as you start the rear stretcher bearer is hit in the face by a branch and temporarily blinded.

The students have to build the stretcher, strong enough to carry 8kg over an obstacle course... the challenge is they only have newspaper, sellotape and string with which to build said stretcher (as these materials are usually readily available in the bush...)

After beginning this activity (to finish on Thursday afternoon) we were intending to go out for some PE, but the weather had other plans! So we headed over to the multipurpose room (kind of like a small hall or large classroom) and had a wee concert (thanks Katie and others... keep an eye on the Room 8 blog for videos) followed by some cooperative games...

First off we completed the hula hoop challenge, with a twist... boys vs. girls. 
Have the group form a circle holding hands. Ask two people to let go of their grip long enough for them to place their hands through a hula hoop before rejoining them. 
The team task is to pass the hula hoop around the circle in a specified direction until it returns to the starting point. 

The girls won :)

Then we did the human pretzel which is where everyone stands in a circle and hold hands... they then knot themselves up and two people have to try and untangle them! See below for photos...
It was fun to watch and they nearly got untangled, but we had to stop in order to reduce the chances of arms being pulled off and other nasty things like that. 
The feedback at the end was that peoples hands were sweaty...