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Wednesday 3/31/04 Reported & Photographed by Allison |
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Di-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ing. There was the first bell for a very interesting day for fifth grade. Today was the fourth and last enrichment day of the school year (Enrichment Day is where we spend the whole day learning about one thing, and today was heath, and fitness.). After we had said the Pledge of Allegiance and the Kid of Character Pledge, it was time for our overall fitness. There, we worked our bodies and our minds. The person who was teaching the class made us get different groups. Honda would mean three people and a school bus would mean a group of eight people. The first activity we did was crab walking all around the room. Then we did bear walking all around. Next, we got into our groups of eight. In those groups, made a circle standing up, and while we were holding each other’s hands, we had to pass a hoola hoop around the circle WITHOUT using our hands, or talking. I thought it was kind of hard because the hoola hoop kept getting stuck on my pony-tail while I was stepping through it. Then we had to make up a pattern to pass a beach ball around the circle, like a person always had to pass it to the same person over, and over. It got even harder when we had to reverse the pattern. "It was kind of frustrating,” said Taylor, "because Andrea kept dropping the ball and Allison kept laughing." After that, my class, and I traveled (not really) over to Mrs. Campney's room, which was right next door to our classroom. There, we worked with equipment like wheelchairs, and special goggles that had blurs, and scratches on the part where your eyes look out of, so it showed how some people with eye disorders saw out of their own eyes and goggles. On the wheelchair, I thought it was really hard to steer, because to turn, you would have to turn the opposite wheel of the way you want to turn to turn, and secondly it was hard just to go straight. But anyway, you would have to go down the hallway without using your feet, then you have to maneuver around some cones, turn 180 degrees around, then wheel yourself back to the classroom. After we used the handicap equipment, we took a bus to Fast Forward, a kids gym. There, for an hour, we did more exercises. Then we took a bus back to the classroom to eat our lunches. After filling lunches
we walked down to Zorinsky Lake, part way around it, then back
to school right before the end of the
day. |