Super Klipper Bowl II

Are you ready for some fffooooootball? 4th graders were geared up and ready to go Friday for the second annual Klipper Bowl. Teams burst through the tunnel (our classroom door), completed warm-up stretches, then huddled up to devise their game plan and come up with a team name. Next up was our coin toss with Referee Klipfel. Lucky teams who guessed the coin toss correctly had a 20-yard kickoff return while others started on the 10-yard line. Using perseverance and grit, teams quickly caught up.

Teams then ran "plays" from their playbook to gain yardage on the field. "Plays" included using different forms of texts (articles, media, poems, etc.) and completing activities. Players learned about who invented football and completed a crossword worth 40 yards.  Teams read a Wonderoplois article explaining what makes the Super Bowl so super and then completed a Google form for 25 yards. Teams could choose to run a play and apply all their figurative language knowledge to create football similes, metaphors, alliterations, personifications and onomatopoeias. The plays worth the most yards involved correctly placing team logos for all the Northeast and Southeast region teams (yes, we have been learning all about the Northeast and Southeast in Social Studies). Other plays included reading a passage about Tom Brady, learning about the history of the Super Bowl, and reading a football poem to determine the mood and purpose of the poem, all for different amounts of yards.  

Once teams correctly completed a play, they brought it to Referee Klipfel for the final check and to advance on the field. After gaining enough yardage to make it down the field, teams scored a touchdown! Referee Klipfel blew the whistle as we all threw our hands in the air to yell, "Touchdown!" Teams then got to shoot from two different marked spots for 1 or 2 extra points. Team cooperation and good sportsmanship earned extra yards or shots for points at ANY time throughout the game. "Good job", "keep working hard", and other forms of encouragement were heard around the field all day. No yellow flags needed to be thrown.   

Referee Klipfel and teams had one SUPER day! Klipper Bowl II is complete so now onto baseball season.