What Is the Olympics All About?
Yesterday, we were shared a concept behind why the Olympics is held… for people around the world to gather and partake in a friendly sports competition. The colors in the Olympic rings symbolize people’s unique differences that when linked together can “create” and “foster” unity. Stemming from that thought, we had activities that would guide us understanding this concept. And oh, we also had water play!
What Can We Do In A Circle
Circles and rings, these have been the shapes that we have been seeing in class the past days. For our Circle Time, a green balance beam was formed into a circle for us to gather and sit on. It’s a different feeling having to sit together on the balance beam, the proximity between each of us is closer and we felt more of a tight knit group. While huddled together, we were each given an egg shaker to start off our Circle Time. We tried balancing our egg shakers on top of our heads, hand, knee, shoulder, and foot!
“Hokey Pokey” by Sangeetha Thangarajan is becoming a frequently requested song when we are asked what song we want to dance to. Having the round shaped balance beam provides us a clearer picture of what “inside” and “outside” is as we get to put our body parts in and out of the circle.
As our weeklong “Opening Ceremony” is slowly coming to a close, we had another try of how it is to pass the torch. Using our favorite “Baby Shark” song as our guide, each of us had a chance to run with the torch. We changed the lyrics of the song to our names… “R shark du-du-du-du…” while marching/running around the circle. When a stanza is done, we ask the torch bearer who he/she wants to pass the torch to next. When the next torch bearer is decided, we change the lyrics and continue on with going around the circle and passing the torch until everyone’s names were called. Through the activity, we had less “Mine!” incidents in passing the torch 😊
Color Matching Based on Olympic Rings’ Colors
Five bowls of the colors red, blue, yellow, green, and orange (oops! Orange would have to do first since we didn’t have black) were laid out. Based on the bowls’ colors, we had to find who amongst us were wearing the color being asked of. Some of us were quite particular with shades of colors. Thanks to that, we learned something new… “light blue,” “dark blue,” and “bright orange”.
It’s A Small World
We were read the book “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” by Kadir Nelson to guide us in understanding the concepts of diversity and unity in which the Olympics revolve around in. Using the shape of the circle to help us concretize these concepts, we taped different colors of connecting people figures around one of the newspaper rings that we made yesterday. We then copied what we made by holding hands to form a circle to sing the songs, “He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands” and “It’s A Small World”.
We hope you had a lovely day!
Love,
Buds Class Children