what would be some good and exciting events for a school field day/picnic?
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scavenger hunt\n3 legged race\nbalance a egg on a spoon and run with it for a set distance\nbeanbag toss\nbob for apples\nguess the jellybeans or gumballs in a jar\nrubber duckie pond (just do something on the bottom of some of the ducks so one person or however many you want can win) float them in a small swimming pool.\ntug-a-war (teachers/parents vs. students)\n\nIm sure you could have alot of fun with this day, good luck
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Try art/music/theater day camps to keep them engaged.  Although they aren't specifically academic, they might be a chance to try something new in a lower-stakes environment.
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watch some cool movies, eat lots of food, gossip, call some really cute boys, maybe jump on a trampoline or go swimming if you have any fun stuff like that! Or play some hoops or soccer and you know you'll think of some stuff once everyones there!
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go for a walk/run\ngo hang out in the park\nplay some outdoor sports like volleyball, soccer or tennis\nif u have a dog, take it out for a walk\nhave a picnic
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corn hole, flip cup, beer pong, bad mitten, good mixed Cd's, horseshoes. just get everyone involved in something, my friends and I play pictionary after we've been drinking-- hilarious, every one goes completely nuts! So yeah, I suggest some sort of team activity.
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roll peanut butter in little balls\n\ndip the balls in melted chocolate\n\nbut the dipped balls on wax paper to dry\n\neat and repeat\n\nGO BUCKEYES...........  NO LETDOWNS THIS YEAR!!!!!\n\nor u could plant a tree...... but that wont be finished till after the game
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HOW ABOUT A PICNIC,THAT SOUNDS GOOD.AND IF YOU ARE NOT SO GOOD AT COOKING . YOU COULD DO COLD CUTS ,AND CHIPS .OR KFC FRIED CHICKEN-ITS GOOD COLD .OR A CHICKEN SALAD .YOU REALLY DON'T  HAVE TO COOK ,TO HAVE A PICNIC .BUT THEY ARE ALWAYS FUN.
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scavenger hunt at the park....a friend did that once...parents and children all had fun!!!
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maybe get everyone in the class to chip in and throw him/her a suprise party. i did that for one of my teachers before w/ a couple of friend and she was realli moved. she was touched that we organized everything and had everyone participate.
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find a common ground.  Family, weather, sports teams, the day...\n\njust make some humor and they'll open up...
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Peep Jousting!!!!!\n\nYou can have medieval tournaments with them. Yellow chickens against the pink bunnies. It's a great lunchtime event for work! :-)
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Watch the movie Election.  I'm sure the mechanism will vary with the school.  One idea I always wanted to do long long long ago when I was a student.......have a make out booth with your pamphlets.
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Mini golfing, carnival, skating, ice skating, bowling, or go to an orchard and pick apples/peaches/strawberries lots of finger foods! Or just drive around, listen to each other's favorite music, talk and go sight seeing!\nhave fun! have a nice day! :)
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Cinco de Mayo, or maybe about Dia de los Muertos.  If it doesn't have to be on a theme related to the class, though, you could try doing it on something that really interests you, or that you know alot about.
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I think that's a fantastic idea! You guys should do it. When I was in high school, we decided to go to Macdonald's in formal dress, like it was the prom. We hired a limo, got one of our friends to serenade us on the violin, had other friends dressed as waiters, with the white napkin over one arm. We had a wine steward...(for the cokes)...we brought somebody's mom's best china, candles, etc. One of the guys (there were 6 couples) brought a book of Shakespeare's sayings and read from that to his date. After "dining", we danced on the little walkway that wound around the building, to the music of the violin. A newspaper photographer showed up and our pictures were on the next day's front pages. (it was a small town)\n\nDo the crazy things you think of now before you're too old. They'll be memories you can laugh about always...
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There are so many different things you can do!  Teaching with projects, especially interdisciplinary ones, can be fun and exciting.\n\nYou might try choosing a novel and having assignments related to it.  For example, How to Eat Fried Worms.  Students can create a worm garden, calculate how much materials are needed for it, write letters to businesses asking for the materials and why they want them, observe the worms and create a daily log about them, and complete many creative writing assignments about worms.  For social studies research what other cultures eat, and for math they can create graphs for how fast the worms grow, and measure the worms.  And don't forget how worms fit into the food cycle.  You can end the unit with the movie and gummy worms.  \n\nThere are so many great books out there, and you can always use books on tape if students have a hard time reading them - check your local library for more.\n\nGo with whatever topic the students are interested in and create assignments around it.  Since Christmas is coming up, consider the book The Best Christmas Pageant Ever.  Students can turn the book into a play, create scenery, calculate the cost of materials needed to build the sets, study Christmas in other countries, other holidays in December, and more.  Students can also create a holdiay meal including shopping (using grocery store flyers), which can include budgeting skills, make a guest list (living or dead and why they'd invite that person) table decorations, etc. You could actually cook a meal, too. There is also a movie to go along with this book with Loretta Swit from MASH.  There are so many possiblities!\n\nIf you're going to cook consider the cook book Gross Grub.  It's really funny and gross with fun and easy things to make, perfect for boys. \n\nSome authors have also come out with cookbooks to go along with their novels.  There's one that's a companion to Roald Dahl's novel - kids make Mr. Twit from The Twits (another great book with lots of possibilties) and all sorts of things with different levels of difficulty.\n\nJim Trelease's Read Aloud Handbook is a great source for books kids like.  So is www.bn.com, the Barnes and Noble web site.  Reading is so important, especially for kids with problems.  If you can incorporate it and make it fun, the kids will learn so much more!
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You got it. school dances, clubs, student goverment, debate team, sports, cheerleading, dance team, carnivals, and funraisers are all school activities, please there are many more.