What's Field Day again?

While I am super glad we made it to the spring I can do with out the rain. How's the song go.... "Rain! Rain! Go away! Come again another day"  I don't know about you but I could do without a little rain now. How about it comes back in a couple of weeks. Not only can the rain mean indoor recess (Gonoodle is awesome-sauce but we need some outside air too!) but it can mean delays and cancellations.

We got to experience the latter this past week. Miss Redfern (our fantabulous P.E. teacher) designed a great Field Day for the whole school. She scheduled the days for last week and everyone started getting excited! We blocked off Thursday afternoon and got ready to get our fun on.....cue the rain :(

Since we couldn't have it last Thursday we tried for this Thursday. Again, we got pumped and excited to play some games in our field! And then it rained from 4 p.m. Wednesday into this morning. You can imagine the sad faces this morning when we heard the announcement. So what's a teacher to do with a restless group of first graders who are craving some out door fun??? Create a Mini Field Day, of course!

We LOVE our mini Field Day!

Up first we did a timed race to see which group could walk quickly to the office, politely ask for a block which I had given the secretaries, and then walk quickly back. We FaceTimed my phone so the person walking could take us on the journey. Polite groups got a :20 second reduction and this resulted in a win by :02 seconds!

Next we took it outside for some relays and a water bottle showdown! Thank goodness our interior courtyard was dry!

Relay Race

The Over-Relay

The Under-Relay

Beanie Baby Relay

The switch off!

Obstacle Course while balancing a pom-pom on a spoon.

Knocking dominos down with water guns!

Down they went!