EMPOWER Field Trip with 5th and 6th Grade
Posted by Eric SnowAfter seeing how much fun and camaraderie the 7th and 8th Grade students have on their annual rafting trip each year, we decided that our 5th and 6th Grade students should have a similar opportunity to cap off a whirlwind first week back to school.
This year, we enlisted the team-building experts at EMPOWER to help us offer the youngest Upper School students at Unquowa an incredible half-day filled with exciting group-based challenges. To set things up, Dan, Destin, and Dylan, our guides and leadership coaches, split everyone into teams and got us warmed up with an interactive, relay version of charades called FFEACH, an acronym for Fast Food, Electrical Appliances, and Cartoon Heroes. That made it easy to figure out a category for charade topics, but the guessing was all up to our actors’ hard work…
Next, 6th Graders were off across the field to play two games in three teams: a large-scale version of the Memory game many of us have played, and another game where students were tasked with getting a golf ball from one end of the field to another using only their wits, some PVC pipe sections, and some tricky footwork!
Meanwhile, our 5th Graders worked on their communication skills as they attempted to cross the field while being connected to one another (via some foam squares) before completing GIANT jigsaw puzzles that were all the same color!
And last but not least, each team had to work together to balance tennis balls on crates as they carried them across the field and oh-so-carefully deposited them in a bucket. 5th and 6th Graders had to work separated at first, but then cheered each other on and were SO excited when their partner teams finished and we all got to eat a well-earned lunch.
Today was a FANTASTIC day for overcoming obstacles, working on communication, and helping one another succeed – and we did it all with the unafraid Unquowa spirit! Huzzah!
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