Today Room 4 participated in a trust and strategy building activity. I partnered the children up and gave them a balloon to work with. Using one index finger each the children had to get the balloon from the ground to above their heads without dropping it. Everyone was really good at it! After the task we had a discussion about it, I asked the children what they had had found difficult or easy about the task. I also asked them what it was like to have to rely on another person to complete the task with. The general consensus was that it was a bit hard to know how to make it work when they didn't know what the other person's ideas were. We discussed that it meant we needed to talk to each other to decide how to work together to be successful. Talking helps us to gain strategy while also helping us to build trust in each other through working together. We had so much fun doing this!
