A little background about the activities taking place in this short video. A few weeks ago, as we were finishing up in the gym, it began to rain and the intermediate students who were planning to practice their track and field events outside joined us in the gym. They set up the high jump bar and mat and I asked Mr. Hummel if he could explain its use and let us have a try before we left and he obliged. The next day as we were having our snacks I showed the children some short videos of Olympic high jumpers, which led to long jumpers and relay racers and hurdlers and divers and shot putters. They asked almost every day to see another event. This past week the intermediates had their school track meet and as we ate our snacks under the tree, we noticed the sand pit we often dig in being used for long jump..... which led to a whole hour of practice by some Team Awesome members. They even insisted on getting the metre sticks to see who jumped the farthest (face plants didn't count). I see some Olympic athletes in our future.
