One Day, Two Outings!
Girls Outing
By popular demand, the girls got to bake at their outing. After separating into chocolate and vanilla teams, we got a mini lesson on fractions when we learned about all the different proportions of ingredients it took to create cupcakes. As we waited for the cupcakes to bake, the fun continued as we got to design our own t-shirts! Starting with iron-on designs, each of us created our own unique t-shirt with puffy paint and markers. It was interesting to see the girls’ personalities show up on the t-shirts. Even though everyone started with the same material, the t-shirts all ended up looking different. We couldn’t wait to wear it so that we could proudly show what we made ourselves (in fact, the next day, a few girls were already wearing their t-shirts)!
While the teachers patiently ironed on the designs, the girls played outside with their team leads. The girls continued to show off their unlimited creativity with decorating the side walk with chalk drawings. They drew each other and a hop-scotch course, which all of us tried out. After a lunch of spaghetti and some dancing to JOYland songs to help us all digest after the meal, it was sadly time to go home. Though the girls were sad, they were cheered up with the promise of another outing in the future…what will we do at our next outing? We can’t wait to find out!
Boys Outing
What do pizzas, cardboards, cars, and ImpACT boys have in common? Pizzas are packaged in cardboard boxes, which then can be made to cars, and ImpACT boys absolutely love eating pizza and racing cars! We all definitely had a blast coming together for the first-ever all-boys outing. The students assembled a bunch of cars out of cardboard wheels and sticks as hulls while using the balloon as the power to push the car forward, then had their own mini derby with a makeshift racing track. The boys blew up the balloon attached to their car, set it down and let it race across the floor. These little racers that the boys made can really move, making a clean getaway as soon as you set them down.
Jesus, who dreams of being a car designer one day, actually built a car that flew off the table and took off faster than the teachers’ cars! Who knew we would apply Newton’s Third Law of Motion, that is, the balloon pushes the air back, and that pushes the car with equal force in the opposite direction. While everyone was making cars and racing them, our very own cooking guru and team lead, Mr. Tran helped the boys make their own pizza. It was a first time for many boys and teachers. These homemade pizzas tasted especially yummy. Julian said that “[this is] the best thing I have done ever done in my life!”
