Chi Marchie: A day in pictures

Thursday, March 11, 2010

A day in pictures

Today was Sports Day at Singapore International. It started out hysterically, all the kids were so pumped to compete. By the end, I had about 6 children crying due to their loss (and having to watch another class receive medals). I finally managed to bring out my camera today, and since a picture is worth a thousand words, I'll just post about Sports Day with images... enjoy!

Here is one of my classes, before the tears...

This is my other class, posing with their spirit posters right before the activities started.

Students lining up to head to the "fields"...

Tug of war... ended up pretty messy

Soccer dribbling relay, after this loss the tears started flowing

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K.OMarch 12, 2010 at 2:20 PM
Very Cool!
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Kathleen VMarch 14, 2010 at 11:01 PM
Your Sports Day looks fun and produced a lot of teachable moments...including losing sometime. The US Public School System does it's best to eliminate the appearance of winning/losing, especially at the elementary level. I don't think this is good life training. Kids need to learn to lose sometime.
Keep up the good work Meggie..love you
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Thursday, March 11, 2010

A day in pictures

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