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.

Klipazon

You know about Amazon, right? But did you know there is a such thing as Klipzon!? Let us tell you a little bit about this awesome online shopping spree. In Klipazon you can’t pay with regular boring American dollars, you have to pay with the one of a kind Klipfel Cash! To get Klipfel Cash you have to earn it by working hard, being kind, being responsible, and showing respect to others, etc.

Now you are probably wondering what we buy with this magical money. A few things are….

• Monkey business $20: Which is when you get the adorable monkey/class mascot Mango for the day! He squeaks with the class and is just a little rascal!

• Klipa Kazillions Ticket $5: When you buy this you get a ticket and get to choose 3 numbers 1-6, then one other number for the Kapow number. To win, Miss. Klipfel has to roll a dice and your 3 digit number has to be rolled in the EXACT order. If that happens you will get the jackpot of KLIPFEL CASH!!!! But if you don’t get the jackpot, you still have a chance to get $6 from your Kapow number.
• Miss Klipfel’s Assistant $25: Which is when you get to help Miss. Klipfel for the day! Say she is going to spin the spinner, YOU would spin it.

Those are just a few things that you could buy on Klipazon. We also love Fluffy Chair, Smelly Shoes and Hoop Time. Once we make a purchase, we wait for the shipment to come in. Miss Klipfel gives us a certificate in exchange for our Klipfel Cash. Maybe you will buy something one day!

Written by Guest Bloggers: Gabby & Ria