Excellence in the Playground

10.5.16

Excellence in the Playground

This is a story about two students using Excellence to Problem Solve their problem. This story is to inspire children to use Excellence in the playground themselves, and to help them to be independent so they don't need a teacher.

The bell rang. Kate and Josh ran straight to the bare trees where the fallen leaves lay. They were going to play their favourite autumn game… Leaf piles. Kate said " You go and collect leaves over there Josh, and I will go over there." "Ok"  Josh replied. They scooped and pushed and carried the leaves over to the pile and the pile itself got so tall that the some of the leaves tumbled off. Then when the leaf pile was finished the hardest bit came, it deciding who got to jump in first. I think it is a bit silly, one of them just has to offer if the other person would want to jump in first and then build another one. But Kate and Josh chose to fight over it. " Ok I will jump in first "  announced Josh. But Kate stopped him. " You jumped in last year!" (Autumn only comes once a year) " LIES " yelled Josh. But but Kate had just thought of a way to problem solve this problem. "Hey don't yell, why not you and me do Paper, Scissors, Rock and whoever wins gets to jump in." So they did and Kate won so she jumped in. They built it up again and Josh jumped in… but this pile was sooo big that they could both jump in again and again and they rolled in the leaves until the end of lunch bell rang.  When they got inside everyone could tell what they had been playing!