Caleb's school holds a Field Day school wide event. The school is divided into 8 color teams (black, white, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple). Each team has kids from K-6. It's a friendly and fun competition that hopefully promotes sportsmanship and team building. I volunteered to be a kinder chaperone and snack coordinator. As a kinder chaperone I walked the kinders to each event and made sure they knew what to do. The events were 1) long jump 2) dirty diaper toss (tossing a foam ball soaked in a tub water) 3) 3 legged race 4) obstacle course 5) fill the bucket 6) water balloon toss 7) relay race and 8) tug-of-war
At each event except the tug-of-war the kids are competing against their grade level. Caleb was on the white team. Each kid was scheduled to participate in 5 of the 7 events. There were four other kinders on his team but unfortunately one was absent and one girl did not want to participate in any event. Luckily the remaining four took up the slack and basically participated in each event. They were troopers!
The funniest events to watch were the 3 legged race and the water balloon toss. Our team teacher advised them to count one(inner leg), two(outer leg), one, two and link their arms together. Caleb and his partner did well and won their heat. But when it came to the final heat, I think they forgot their strategy and kind of hopped/trotted together. They did end up getting 2nd place though.
The water balloon toss was funny because catching is one of those skills that 5/6 year olds are still trying to learn. There was a practice round where I think there was only one team that caught the water balloon or more likely the balloon just didn't pop when it landed on the ground. They were told that if your balloon burst then you were to sit down. In that first round, everyone's balloon burst. It might've been a kindergarten record. So funny. Everyone was given a second balloon for a do-over. In that round, most balloons were popped except for maybe 5. It took another 3 rounds to determine the winner. Caleb and his partner got 2nd place.
The most exciting event was the relay race. Since our team only had four participants one kid had to run twice. Caleb volunteered but another kid volunteered first. In our heat we placed first which meant we got to go to the final heat. In the final heat Caleb got to run twice. I was cheering a whole bunch and helping make sure the next kid who was to run was ready. As it turned out, Caleb's team got first place! I really wish I had a video of him running but I got caught up in the moment of cheering him on. At the end of all the competition, the winners were announced. All throughout the day teachers were given out coins when they saw good sportsmanship. The kids then dropped them into their team jar. Caleb's team won first place for sportsmanship and received a medal! It was a very fun event and I hope Caleb enjoys it every year.
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| Walking to the upper field |
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| Long jump |
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| Obstacle course |
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| Three-legged race. They got 2nd place! |
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| At the start of the finals heat of the relay. |
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| Tug-of-war |
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Ribbons and medal
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