Setting a Record

m

What does it mean to set a record? Well, Bettina and Riley had the opportunity to learn about this at kindergarten. Riley was rolling a bike tyre down the slide and persisting with trying to make it go further each time. It was Bettina's job to run and check how far the wheel had gone. Sandra suggested she get some chalk and record on the concrete where the wheel landed each time so Riley knew if he had rolled it further or not. We discussed that if he got past the furtherst recorded mark, he would set a new record. Then as he persisted with rolling the wheel, Bettina would decide whether or not to record the distance.

"Wow, that's a record!" she would annonunce if it went far or  "Nope, that's not a record." In the end their furtherst mark was the front steps and Riley was determined to get the wheel back to that point.

"I'm gonna get it further," said Riley to Jackson who was watching. "See that over there?" he said pointing to the steps. "That's our record, we gotta try and beat that, right?"

Bettina announced "If you beat that record you win the game, ok Riley?"

Jackson and Wilbur were interested in what was happening and Bettina decided the safest place for them all to sit was behind the log. Great problem solving! Ka pai, tamariki. Lets see if you return to this game and continue to persist with setting that new record.