Reach

On the 13th of March at 9:00 in the morning today, the grade 5s had gone to camp and the rest of us went with the grade next door to the hall for the reach rookys program. At first, I was surprised because I didn't know what the program was about, but soon figured out why. There were 2 people and their names were Emily and Lachy. Firstly, we started with an activity when we went around the circle calling out our names clearly. The first time wasn't so clear so Lachy said that we had to do it again, and believe me, I actually and I also reckon that it wasn't so great either. So we did it the second time, that time I reckon it was a lot better. At that time, I was starting to get used to the program and I realised that it was really fun. Next we did an activity that Emily puts on a piece of ramdom music and any person that has enough bravery can volunteer to go up and dance to the beat of the music. The first person to go up was Matthrew and I think that it would have taken a lot of guts to go up and dance. I was surprised that Matthrew was the first person because I used to think he was more of a quiet person than a person wanting attention. I realised that some people have lots of bravery and always give things a go and we ended up with only with 3 people dancing altogether. After that, we did an activity that we all stand in a circle and with a piece if tape between our toes and there will be a person in the middle left out in the middle with no tape. That person had to say their name and why their different from others, then the people that have the same thing in common had to swap places with some one else and then there would another person in the middle. I found the activity interesting and fascinating because I got to learn new things about other people and why they're different. It bumped me when some people that went in the middle said some stuff that I actually kind of understand because I've been through situations pretty similar to those people. Since we were running out of time, we decided to sit in a circle and go around the circle to those that haven't been in the middle so then they could tell us about their differences. Once we got through them all, we did an activity called Compliment Catcher. Someone had to start off with holding a piece of string and say someone's name and a compliment about them and then we would pass the string to that person and then that person would have to say a compliment. At the end, we all were touching the string and Em J came around to cut the bit of string off for us. To be honest, I found this program really interesting and fun and at the end of the program, I had already learnt lots of thing about other people and I had a great time. || || On the 18th of June at 9:30 in the morning, our class and the class next door, 6C went to the hall for the reach rookys program. I was very surprised because the people there was different from the last time so I wasn't sure if this was the reach rookys program. Their names were Vill, Kieran, Tegan and Jack Mack. First we started talking about the rules of the last visit and I soon realised that this was the correct program but with different people. After that, Kieran said that we would play a game called the military mines (also called The Game Of Life) and that Jack Mack, Tegan, Vill and himself were the sargents. The was a grid made of squares and you have to get to the end to win but there was only one safe path and every time you landed on a mine, Kieran would say boom and you had to go back the way you came or you would get a time penalty. There was also a piranha line and if you step over it you will also get a time penalty. Vill and Kieran were always trying to make us laugh because if we laughed or talked, we would get a time penalty. ||  || ...
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