Destination Imagination

I am coaching J.'s Destination Imagination team this year. She wanted to join but they didn't have any volunteers to coach the team. So here I am.

We have had three meeting so far and each once has certainly been an adventure. I am learning a great deal about how first graders interact and that team work is not something they understand! I think our biggest challenge will be working as a team without fighting, yelling or tears.

J. gets upset if she does not 'win' something or if her idea is not the one that everybody wants to use. I am hoping that this DI season will teach her some teamwork and how to not have everything her way and still enjoy herself. We will see. She has ended up in tears at two out of three of our meetings.

We had our DI Winter Workshop this last weekend and the kids all seemed to enjoy it. It was just for the younger kids and told them about writing stories, making costumes, teamwork, and performance. I hope they retained even a little bit of it!

Our subject for the year is, "Big Bug's Bad Day" The kids have to research bugs, come up with a play and present it to the judges in February. We only have a total of 11 more meetings before competition and I don't know how the kids are going to pull all of this together!

Wish us luck!