Tug of War

Today as the children played with the rope that was connected to the slide, to pull each other up and down the slide Heather had an idea!

"Lets play tug of war" 

While Heather was getting the rope down, Ashleigh grouped all the children to explain the game, she asked the children if they new what tug of war was and after a few interesting answers they got it right

"It's where someone pulls the rope from one end and someone else pulls from the other end"

And thats exactly what the children did! 

We grouped the children into what we thought were even teams and then we started 

" 3 ...... 2......... 1.......... PULL" and with a lot of energy, smiles and laughter the children pulled until one team had pulled the other team over the middle line! 

The children quickly learnt that if there was more children on one side then that side would win, we played over and over again with lots of laughter and mahi tahi, working together to try and beat the other team.

While having all this fun the children were learning numeracy, through counting the number of children in each team, using there large motor skills as they pulled against the force of the other children, but most of all we were excited to see them running from all over the playground to help the children closest to the rope! Mahi tahi working together to achieve a common goal, and having heaps of fun doing it!