Well, really it's called Academic and Athletic Olympiad, but that's just a fancy shmancy term for Field Day. We're not allowed to give a test or quiz of any kind or in any other way take a grade on anything.
Students have tie-died shirts in art class over the past week. They are allowed to wear them tomorrow, and they enter the school uniform for the last month of classes.
We're to play academic games in the classroom for the first half of the day. At 11:00, we go outside to the track and have lunch. Parents are invited to come, and students don't have to stay with their teacher. (A headache in and of itself.) We have over 1,000 students at our school. There is certainly not enough parking, so parents have to park in the Kroger parking lot two blocks away and walk. They arrive late, because they're not expecting that much parking trouble. Students are crying because their parents aren't there, and they don't have a lunch.
After lunch, comes the "athletic olympiad" part of the event! There are inflatables, popsicles, scooter races, beanbag tosses, orange relays (you know the one, where you carry it in your neck and have to exchange it), musical chairs, etc.
Basically, the kids will have a blast and bounce off the walls all day long.
I will have a headache.
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We have Field Day much later in May. Ours is much more structured (as is everything here at MLK). The kids are still crazy. And ditto on the parking. We have about 10 guest spots and 400 4 year olds. Yeah.
ReplyDeleteOur company is participating in a 5k tomorrow morning... I guess that really isn't the same, is it? :-P
ReplyDelete...but Miss Ross, you KNOW you love it! Right? Right??
ReplyDeleteI hope your field day experience was not too terribly bad. Of course I've seen what 1000+ elementary students looks and sounds like on a regular day, so I can only imagine field day...wow.