Part of my job is to teach American culture to students. I had to teach them about Independence Day and tried to keep it simple by showing them the Declaration of Independence and explaining what it is about. Then I showed them the Schoolhouse Rock videos: No More Kings and Fireworks. Love Schoolhouse Rock!!!!We celebrated Independence Day by having a cookout of hot dogs and hamburgers and playing games. At Easter we had 3 adults to supervise and entertain 45 teenagers. Today it was only me. Crap.
In one game I had them tie balloons to their ankles and try to pop the others' balloons. After all the balloons were gone I had no clue what else to do with them. Then I remembered a childhood game that I thought was just their speed: Red Rover!! Of course the girls didn't want to hold hands with the boys. No problem, I had a separate boys and girls game. The kids really enjoyed themselves.
