It’s My Imagination

Snowday

January 27, 2008 on 11:55 am | In Dog Sense | No Comments

This dog really likes snow! This video was so funny that I wanted to share. You can mute the music if you choose, it’s Christmas music after all, but the dog in the video is having so much fun.

Tags: Dogs, snow

Super Saturday

January 27, 2008 on 9:18 am | In My Imagination | 6 Comments

Saturday was the busiest day I’ve had in a long time. By the end of the day, I was completely exhausted and collapsed into bed. Busy, but productive, just the way I like it.

My Destination Imagination team of six 6th graders attended an Instant Challenge Festival first thing yesterday morning. The team was able to watch other teams solve instant challenges and also solve 4 of their own, each time receiving feedback from appraisers (judges). We all learned quite a bit and I feel we are all more confident about what we need to do to be ready for the Regional tournament in March.

An Instant Challenge is basically improvisation. The team is given a challenge, sometimes they are given items to create props, sometimes not, and then have to solve some sort of problem. The problem can be anything from moving plastic animals from one island (poster board taped to floor) to another island, or creating a rhyming answering machine message incorporating nursery rhyme characters. They typically have 5 minutes to create and plan and then 2 minutes to present their solution. It is all very fast pace. These instant challenges are designed to demonstrate how well a team works together and how creative they are. This is where they score the most points.

It was a really great experience and I am ever so glad that we attended, thanks to our school’s PTA who paid the entry fee.

Following the festival, we came home for lunch and I was able to get a load of laundry done before my daughter and I headed out to do some shopping. I will talk more about the shopping at my other site, The Sewing Mom but I will say, I can’t wait to work on the projects I bought supplies for!

We met my husband for dinner at a little Mexican restaurant and I had a huge strawberry margarita that pretty much did me in for the night, as if I wasn’t all ready wiped out! I came home, organized the stuff I had purchased on our shopping trip, got my pajamas on and went to bed. That’s it, that’s all, a very full day.

Tags: Destination Imagination