
This session, following our greeting we all went around and pretended to be different animals. The idea is that some animals run slow and some really fast. Watching the children go as slow as a turtle and then run like a lion was encouraging and especially entertaining as the mentors got into the animal character. As an incentive for the kids to run/walk around the track as many times as they could, we had them collect rubber bands along the way. The children loved it! It was such a great motivator that at the end of the session we added all the rubber bands and determined we had done 50 laps. The kids liked it so much that we are going to track the “rubber band count” on a weekly basis to keep them motivated.
We ended our session with the relay race which the all the kids enjoyed and with a healthy snack! Another fulfilling week – four more to go!