Grade 4 and 5 students are learning the value of developing Collaboration and Teamwork skills!
We talk about what being a “good sport” means, and how to take charge of your temper and anger when things don’t go as you expected them to. We discussed collaboration, teamwork, and sportsmanship outside of solely “sports activities,” by discussing scenarios in the classroom and home/community environment. As a group, we demonstrated what kind of language we should use towards others in teamwork situations.
Good Sportsmanship oftentimes is tough to apply when we feel that we are wronged, or when we don’t succeed in the game, activity, or task. It’s important to recognize when to use our emotional management skills as we get older, so that we don’t offend others or make bad behavioral choices.
We then played a game where students had to work together to complete a task. It took collaboration from everyone, taking turns being the leader and followers, to understand the strategy to complete the task of the game.