Howell Road School sixth-graders enjoyed a wide range of team-building activities with their family members at the annual Sports Night on Oct. 24 in the school gymnasium.
While the event has been known as “Sports Night” for over a decade, the games the attendees played were noncompetitive in nature, and the focus was on helping students build verbal and nonverbal communication skills in a team environment. In the first game of the evening, family members and students were instructed to line up in the order of their birthdays (by month and day) without talking. This activity helped students gain practice in problem-solving, as well as in brainstorming effective ways to communicate without using their voices.
Later in the evening, the students and family members enjoyed many more fun team-building activities, including the Walk-A-Hoop Relay, Stepping Stones, Bigfoot and Scooters, and Community Juggle. “We hope these activities teach students to work together, help each other and think of other people,” Howell Road physical education teacher Kevin Olsen said.
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