Chocolate Day

Hello everybody! I haven't been on here in a while, so here I am to fill you in on some.....stuff. The title says Chocolate Day and that's exactly what I'm gonna tell you about. No, it's not another industry driven holiday in Korea like White Day, Pepero Day, or Black Day. It's a special day I arranged for the students in my Advanced Class last week. Class can get boring and mundane sometimes and we all need a special day to perk us up again.

We started out with a little information hunt. I found 20 interesting facts about chocolate and posted them around the classroom. Then I made a paper with 20 incomplete facts on it and cut the paper into five pieces. The five people holding those papers were on one team. I had 15 other slips of paper for the other three teams and each team had to answer the same questions. The team to complete their papers first would win a Hershey's Cookies & Cream chocolate bar for each team member. It was fun to see the kids literally running around the classroom reading these facts and trying to write down the information that was missing! Team Snickers pulled out the win after I told them some of their info was incorrect.

Using the same teams (Team Snickers, Reese's, Hershey's, and M&Ms) we went straight into the next activity......a treasure hunt! The prize? Nine chocolate bars to be divided among the team members! I had hidden 16 clues and the prize around the school and playground. One student from each team had to eat a chocolate pudding pie before they could receive the first clue for their team. Oh yeah, and they couldn't use their hands or silverware! Team Hershey's finished first, but Team M&Ms finished the hunt first and collected the chocolate prize. Several minutes into the hunt, I looked out the window to see a student still looking for his second clue while the other teams were working on their third or fourth. Sad for him.

We finished the day off with a simple craft I learned in Guam. We used two sheets of aluminum foil to make Hershey's Kiss hats together. The kids enjoyed them and actually made them a lot quicker than my Guam students did. I'm apparently becoming a better teacher. Haha. Later everybody.