Polish folk music. We all faced a challenge keeping the filling within the dough. A few pierogi didn’t have a secure enough seal and came apart when we boiled them. But we had plenty of perfect ones to enjoy a full meal.

We created a mystery prize scavenger hunt. We worked collaboratively to assemble clues - each kid writing a clue of their own that led to the next clue written by another sibling. We had to communicate with each other to plan the locations in the yard to hide each clue that ultimately led Dad (who got the honor of doing the scavenger hunt!) to the “Prize.”

Tonight we did family show and teach! Everyone took a turn telling us about a topic and we learned so much! Topics included axolotls, handstand skills, the role of a wide receiver and safety, and the Dude Perfect group. We practiced our listening skills, our communication skills and being empathetic. Everyone had fun!

Florence did a family treasure hunt. She matched our shirts with crayons and make treasure of the color of our shirts and hid them in the house. We had to search and find it.

Outcomes:

Two way tie!

Eli and Liam Davidson

Debate challenge:

As a family we came up with bracketed battles of the Disney villains and had a debate about each battle taking a side of the character we thought would win. It turned into a pretty lively debate.

Storytelling challenge:

Sitting around the fire we told a story as a family. Each person said one word. The next person had to come up with the next word in the sentence to weave a story that made sense. Ours got a little silly but was a lot of fun.

Role reversal day!

Callie and Barrett wanted to play Mom and Dad. They made lunch(yogurt tarts) worked in the yard and did some cleaning. Dad and I were the “kids” that helped.

We took the idea of the gratitude garland and changed it a little bit to make gratitude trees. Every leaf represents something we are each grateful and thankful for. After we were done we each took a turn presenting our tree and leaves to our family. Skills we used were responsible collaborator - we gave each other feedback and ideas when working on our projects and sharing art supplies to make them. We also focused on being an effective communicator - when we presented and listened to others present.

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Callie and Barrett Rockefeller:

Tonight we played “what’s the question”. We played the global version and came up with global landmarks and asked questions about each one such as the great pyramids. We talked about what it may be like in other parts of the world around Christmas time.

Holiday Music Exchange:

Today we spent the day making some Italian Christmas Favorites. While baking and cooking we each shared our favorite Christmas songs and whey they were our favorite.

Callie: rocking around the Christmas tree

Barrett: Dominic the donkey

Dad: Father Christmas

Mama: Grandma got run over by a reindeer

We had to be effective communicators in explaining why each song was our favorite and practice patience till it was our turn to share and listen to our song.

Today we chose the winners on the morning announcements! We want to say a huge thank you to EVERYONE who participated! We hope this challenge was fun and enriching to your family!