Day 1

Boat ride here!

In order for us to get here we had to take the ferry, which most of us were used to since we've had multiple field trips to islands this year. The boat rides are always fun, especially this one in particular because we were all anticipating the overnight stay here at Thompson Island. Although the boat ride ride was so short it gave us all the opportunity to express how we were feelings about the trip. Some of us were happy and excited; and others not so much. 

   

Activities!

   The first activity we did was the whale watching game. In this game we had to stand on a boat shaped sort of board that was mounted on fulcrum, and the object of the game was to make the board balance out. In order for it to work out we had to work together to see which strategies would work to make it balance. At first, this game was not easy at all but as the time went by we were able to figure out the different ways to accomplish what we needed to. One lesson someone should take away from this would be that in order for something to work within a group, all the members have to work together and be able to come to agreements. This game is a good way to build a number of different skills.

The second activity we did was the zipper game. The goal was of this game was to be able to run through the group without being touched. While running through, you were supposed to drop your arms, kind of like a zipper unzips.  The main lesson we were suppose to take away from this game was trusting peers. In order to get through the ‘zipper’ you had to trust that your peers would release their arms, enabling you to pass through.  If you didn’t trust them enough to get through then the game wouldn’t be successful.

The third and final game we played was a jump rope game. The object of this game was to figure out the pattern or rule of how we were supposed to pass through the rope. But the tricky part of this was that the only people who knew the pattern were the people swinging the ropes and they weren't able to tell us! The lesson of this particular game was that in life you have to figure out different patterns or ways to make impossible, possible.