Global Play Day 2017!

Today, my class participated in Global School Play Day! 

Thank you to the Bedley Brothers and Twitter for introducing me to this project!  The power of a Personal Learning Network (PLN) triumphs again!

I was heavily influence to participate in #GSPD after listening to this eye opening presentation: 

The Decline of Play TED Talk from psychologist Peter Gray. 

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On Friday, I emailed parents, shared "The Decline of Play" video, and asked for games to be brought in for our #GSPD event. On Wednesday, we had a few curricular blocks, but we were able to have two solid play sessions.

The sessions were sensational!

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First, we talked about kindness in our Second Step 

lesson, and how to help one another. We talked about

 sharing and allowing all to play.

Let's Play!

We build Jenga towers and stacked them on trucks

 

 

We played multi-player games

Shared baseball cards and made an array

 

 

Legos

Guessed who'd done it in Clue

 

 

We played balancing games

We made a movie

We used our imagination to play

Created domino mazes

 

What is your opinion of Global School Play Day?

Would you recommend it?

Convince me!

Global Play Day 2016!

Today, my class participated in Global School Play Day! 

Thank you to the Bedley Brothers and Twitter for introducing me to this project!  The power of a Personal Learning Network (PLN) triumphs again!

I was heavily influence to participate in #GSPD after listening to this eye opening presentation: 

The Decline of Play TED Talk from psychologist Peter Gray. 

☼     ☼     ☼     ☼     ☼

On Monday, I emailed parents, shared "The Decline of Play" video, and asked for games to be brought in for our #GSPD event. On Wednesday, we had a few curricular blocks, but we were able to have two solid play sessions. One session was with our 5th grade buddies!

The sessions were sensational!

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First, we talked about the rules. 

There would only be ☝, the Golden Rule.

We made centers for different types of games

Let's Play!

We played outside

We had some fun games of Twister

Some Mancala

Played cards

 We played some difficult balancing games like Jenga

We created using LEGO

And even had a puppet show!

What is your opinion of Global School Play Day?

Would you recommend it?

Convince me!