Today we went to Tilles Park and the Clayton Center for the Claymo Retreat. We learned how to be a good Claymo leader. We did a lot of fun things such as playing kickball, painting pots, meeting and getting to know our partners, and reading letters from our parents. We also had a lanyard ceremony after that. At the end, we watched a video by Kid President. The purpose of this field trip was to learn how to be a leader and we did activaties to help us understand that and how to act in difficult situations. In conclusion, we learned to be a thoughtful, kind, and a reliable Claymo leader.
We are all looking forward to a great year!
TOday during the CLAYMO Retreat one of the activities we participated in was the marshmallow tower challenge. And preparing for the first CLAYMO lesson. The challenge was to build the tallest possible structure with tape, spaghetti, string, and the marshmallow. The rules was that you got only ten minutes to complete the challenge and you immediately had to let go and it had to stand up on its own to let it qualify. This activity we will be doing for our first CLAYMO lesson. But this time to complete this challenge the younger groups will have eighteen minutes to complete this challenge and will be working in bigger groups than just partners. After 18 minutes everyone will let go and we will discuss how you worked together and how you felt and also who won.
Today we also made the lanyards with our names and decorated it to represent us and our personality!It was also a good time to learn more about our new partners! It was pretty fun! After words we learned how to be good CLAYMO leaders. we stat in a circle and we asked some questions and we learned from each other. :)
After Tilles park and we went to the Clayton center. Kickball was one of the two activities we did for recess at the center. We played it were when the kicking team got 3 outs, they switched to the outfield. Kickball was a very good team building activity! Thats what we did in kickball!!!
One of the other recess activities was a dance party. At the dance party there were hula hoops, songs and dancing. Everyone took off their shoes and danced to Happy, The Macarana and YMCA. The boys went in a line and did the train. Some girls danced, others hula hooped and a couple did gymnastics(dancing exercise). Everyone danced to the Macarana but a few boys didn't. Everyone freestyled a lot of dancing, You would not be able to count. Dancing was fun!
One of the last things we did was a ceremony. During our CLAYMO ceremony we all got a chance to come up to Mrs.Scott while Ms. McMillion put a lanyard around our neck.This lanyard represents leadership. But as well we got a letter, this letter was from someone else in our life.They wrote about how we are leaders.They also gave us examples of our leadership about when we were younger and started to show that we had what it takes to be a leader.
Today at the CLAYMO Retreat we had to document our data by writing in our leadership journals that the teachers gave us. They gave us questions about leadership and what we would do as a leader. We learned what to do and we documented it. Every fifth grader got one of these journals. We wrote and answered all the questions about leadership and about ourselves. We got quiet time when we wrote in our journal so we could not get distracted by other kids writing. We wrote our talents and how we are a leader and kind of show how we are a leader by our special talents.
At the end of our day we watched a Kid President Pep Talk video.
Kid President was talking about how the world was boring and how to make it more awesome. He said that we should just dance when we feel like it, be awesome, and treat others the way you would want to be treated, and be a TEAM!
Kid President inspires us fifth-graders and teaches us how to be CLAYMO Leaders and be the one who shows it all and showing we are all unique in our own special way and having all the Glenridge students look up to us.
Written by the class of 5M
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