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Friday, May 21st, 2010 at 1:44 PM |
I wrote about field day 2009 and what it was like in my elementary school. Now I’ve experienced two different elementary school field days. (My younger two go to separate elementary schools — by choice.) One school sets up stations all over its big, long field. The kids wear a color shirt based on the grades they’re in while 5th grade wears its class shirt. (5th grade at both schools gets unique class shirts.)
The kids have laminated cards that volunteers check off when they complete the station. They are free to roam the field from station to station. That’s the nice thing about this school’s big yard — you can see it all in front of you.
The other school has a yard that wraps around the sides and back of the school with many blind spots. Three classes from the same grade rotate from station to station together. They do activities inside and outside. This year, for the first time, the grades will wear the same color shirts.
Unlike the other school, we order a new field day tee every year. It has “Field Day” and the current year on it. (See photo for this year’s quasi-Survivor logo.) The image changes every year. Some good years and some dull years. I’d say this year’s is in-between. Best field day shirt ever: red, white and blue tie dye that I still wear. I volunteered today and worked the Speed Stacks station. Yes, lucked with an indoor assignment away from the heat.
Brain food…
- My Dialogue Sucks: Tips for Improving Dialogue in Your Novel: A wonderful collection of highlights from various articles around the web.
- 10 Marketing Resources Every App Should Provide: This is a fantastic resource for anyone involved with apps. I’m amazed how many don’t provide much. Most of us need details before we try it.
- 15 Gorgeous and Effective HTML Emails: Great examples. But reality… HTML-emails don’t look readable in all common email clients. I have found lots of funky-looking ones in Gmail, but they look fine in Thunderbird. First rule: Accept your HTML email won’t look identical in all email apps. [Link: BubbleCow]
- Five Reasons I’m Not Quitting Facebook: And I hope you won’t give up on it either.
- You’re Just Not That Into Me: the introvert’s guide to attending a conference: I have a good reason to avoid conferences — I don’t know if I can get my money’s worth considering deafness thing.
And for fun because we’re allowed…
- Awkward Family Photos: Some of the titles are winners. “Sisters of the traveling hands.”
- 15 Bizarre Prom Photos: Makes my ’80s prom photo look normal.
- Top Five Fonts You Should Never Use: Wish all the locals would watch this… not captioned, but easy to follow and still laugh.
- Recipe Look: OK, the web overflows with recipe sites. But every recipe in Recipe Look comes with adorable drawings. Got a favorite recipe, pencil and paper? Draw away and submit your recipe embellished with your art.
- The City Made of 100,000 Staples: Artist Peter Root plans another project using one million staples. And these things can fall like dominoes. He has worked with potatoes, soap and transformer laminate.
- Twitter Reacts in Horror to 2012 Olympic Mascots: Hilarious article. The new mascots make all the past mascots look like winners. Be sure to scroll through the slide show. [Link: Karen Swim]
What memories do you have of field day or other traditional school event?
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3 comments
What a great picture of you and your son!
I only volunteered once at Field Day– and it was very hot that day. I just remember wanting it over with!
@Karen, thank you! The first year I ever volunteered on Field Day — I didn’t enjoy it. It depends on the assignment and kind of day.
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