I can’t believe the Olympics are over. It has been an amazing couple of weeks watching the competitors on TV and celebrating their success with them as well as seeing your amazing Olympic posts link up over the 18 days. The Kids Bloggers Go Olympics opened up for the celebrations on Living Montessori Now and has been celebrated with food, activities, learning exercises and fun around the world with many people joining. Closing Yesterday at Teach Preschool.
I wanted to Thank everyone who has joined in and linked up their Olympic posts and share some of my favourites with you from the over 100 posts linked up.
The Torches
The Olympics started with the torches. We had picture torches, model torches and even edible torches linked up.
The Medals
No Olympics would be complete with out the unique medals and they were certainly unique when Linked up. Macaroni, recycled, salt dough, edible and hand made.
The rings and the symbols
Flags, posters, food and games were devised to look at the rings and the colours that they include. There was ring games, some glow in the dark some garden fun. The rings were painted, threaded, plungered, made with playdough and in a number of different ways to eat (1, 2, 3).
London and the history of the Games
Some serious learning took place with books, flags, ancient Olympic traditions, Olympia and about the United Kingdom covered.
The sports
All the sports were covered from canoing to swimming, to horse riding, to javelin, gymnastics and even invented your own games.
Hosting your own games
Around the world people hosted their own games – from ones for toddlers, preschoolers to family Olympics.
Learnt about the Ethics
Through sports and activities the ethics of the Olympics were covered from winning and losing, to friendship and teamwork.
I hope you have enjoyed the celebration of the Olympics as much as we have and hope that you will come and join us tomorrow evening on the 14th August 2012 for a twitter Party at 2pm CST (8pm GMT) to have fun keeping the Olympic spirit alive that we have lightened in our children.
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All of these ideas are wonderful for children to get their feet wet & I would have no problem recommending them for G+ & G+1 if their link did’nt keep disappearing!!!
Great collaboration my friend!
Thanks for cohosting this with me:)
Angelique recently posted..The best of ‘Kids celebrating Olympics London 2012′ – crafts, games, food, fun learning
Wonderful overview of Kids Bloggers Go Olympics! Thanks so much for linking to Living Montessori Now and my Opening Ceremony post. You did an awesome job of organizing this fun project! I’ve added this post to my already-huge Olympic Unit Study Pinterest Board at http://pinterest.com/debchitwood/olympic-unit-study/
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What a wonderful group of ideas! I loved getting to see what people came up with.
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Thanks for the for the feature!
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Very fun. I most like those medals!
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