Who you gonna call?

…well according to my husband we needed to call CVWMA Recycling due to our accumulation of Propel water bottles. Instead they served as nice targets for a Ghostbuster game that we played in the lower school last week. The object of the game was to knock down the other team’s ghosts while also trying to protect your ghost.

       

A silly premise? Maybe. A realization that I am old and that kids don’t know about Ghostbusters? Definitely. What was most interesting, however, was the observation of risk versus reward. In order to knock down other ghosts a student had to leave their ghost a bit unprotected.  This was something that many of the older students were comfortable with, while the younger students hesitated to venture too far way from their ghost. I can relate. Each time I toe the line for a race there is a decision to make. How hard can I push without going too far? I have found that learning how to face these challenges is transferable to much more than sport. It is my hope that the kids will also learn skills on the field that they can use in the classroom or when faced with other challenges. Plus it is also fun when the risk pays off, as you can see below.