Let's Break the Ice!

On October 8th we had our first fieldwork experience at Bishop Dunn. We did a few icebreaker activities with our students. Since our group was Life Science we chose to do some fin 5 senses activities. One of the issues we came across was trying to find questions and activities that could engage such a varying age group. We needed to have appropriate activities that a 2nd grader could participate in but we also needed to make sure that it was not going to lose the interest of our 4th and 5th graders. This was not an easy task! But, our group put our heads together and we came up with activites that the students really seemd to enjoy.

We had a mystery bag that they would wear blindfolds while trying to figure out what they were feeling and/or hearing in the bag. Some students were so interested in knowing what was in the bag that they purposely tried to rip it! It was funny to see them so focused. We also had some fun taste/smell and hearing activities for them. The students really enjoyed what we had planned for them, most likely because we had candy for them to taste. 🤭

We unfortunately ran out of time and could not always do all of the activites in the 10 minutes that were alloted, but now we know for future to condense our material so that we can fit it all in, what can I say, we were excited and maybe over planned a bit. But it all went pretty well in my opinion. We saw the students get excited, inquisitive and we had few laughs along the way. 

The other groups had fun activities as well, like tossing a beach ball and answering a question, 2 truths and a lie, and one group created a maze.

All things considered I feel that our first class was a success!