‘Snowball’ Fight!

Yeah-yeah…I know it doesn’t snow in the Cayman Islands, but that shouldn’t stop us from having a snowball fight, should it? So, needless to say, once I decided on doing this winter activity, I was then left with the problem of how in the world would I get snow to Cayman? Hmmm…ehhh…forget the snow, we could use paper instead! AND! To make this an educational experience, on the paper, each student would be required to write 3 things about themselves. They had to use as many descriptive words as possible, without being ‘too’ obvious. You see, the object was to not only practice our adjectives, but to also learn a little something more about each other. So, after they described themselves, they had to crush up their paper into a ball, add it into our sorting tub and then choose a random ‘snowball’.The scene was set. With a handful of snow…errr…paper, they aimed and THREW their snowballs at each other. After about 3 minutes, they had to cease fire, find a ball, take their seats and read out loud the clues that they held in their hands. Then it was time to see if they could correctly guess who these clues were written by. Needless to say, we had loads of fun, with many requests to have more ‘snowball’ fights and even relate it to other subjects. (For example, one student suggested we write clues about Central America (that’s what we’re covering now in Social Studies) and see if we can guess which country is described on the paper). Don’t you just love it when your children become super excited about school? 🙂