Fifth Graders at Glenridge Elementary Teach Kids About Flexibility During CLAYMO

Fifth Graders at Glenridge Elementary Teach Kids about Flexibility During CLAYMO

By: Angela Chen

On Thursday, December, 15, the Fifth graders at Glenridge Elementary taught other kids about one of the Olympic Mindset traits: Flexibility.

Why is Flexibility Important?

You’re probably thinking: Why is flexibility important?? Well, that is exactly what the Fifth graders taught the younger kids. The younger kids were read a scenario where a little kid runs out to recess, wanting to play soccer, but when he gets there, he sees all his friends playing something else. He then spends the rest of his recess on anger and is very unhappy by the end of recess. The students were then asked to discuss how the little boy could have had a better recess instead of wasting his entire recess on anger. All of the students agreed that instead of not doing anything for recess but being mad, he could have been flexible and compromised.

Yay!! Its Game Time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Fifth grade leaders then asked all the students to gather together and come up with a game using a wand, two pieces of paper, and the chairs and tables.

One CLAYMO group came up with a game called “Blindstick”.

The rules were:

• You must keep both pieces of paper over your eyes until you have touched the wand
• You cannot touch the tables or the chairs
• Only the guide is allowed to give him/her directions on where to go
• The guide and the person that cannot see are the only ones not allowed to move the tables or chairs
• When you touch the wand, you win

The CLAYMO group played a couple of rounds of “Blindstick”. “It was fun,” agreed Sophia S, Angela C, and Abby R, the leaders of the CLAYMO group that created “Blindstick”.“I hope the next time when something doesn’t go their way, they will be flexible”, says one of the CLAYMO leaders. “It was a great experience!”