Today was a wonderful day all around with the beautiful fall weather, great activities and New Hampshire Chronicle taping an episode for WMUR! The chronicle crew came and met the Wildcat Friends group at the dinning hall were they filmed and interviewed participants and volunteers. Then group one went on to yoga with the wonderful Ruth Abelmann leading us in poses and stretches. The highlight of yoga was when everyone joined in a circle and did the tree pose. This is when you stand straight on one leg and balance your weight while placing your opposite foot on the supporting leg. This tends to create the shape of a four. While students did this in a circle we all joined hands. It was a beautiful thing.
Group two was over at New Hampshire Hall for the indoor rock climbing wall with the kinesiology students. There were two camera crews, UNH kinesiology and WMUR , filming the students climbing together towards the top. Everyone had a great time. It was a great team effort between outdoor education students and physical education students and professors to make this event happen. Everyone was able to help everyone else climb safely and confidently.
Both groups were together for class. We had guest speaker retired DEA Agent Jack Ryan come speak about his experiences as a police officer and DEA agent. He was very fun and animated and kept everything on their toes thinking about how to solve crimes. He had some real life stories that were very interesting. His presentation was enjoyed by all. The NH Chronicles crew filmed part of the class and then finished up with some interviews and headed home. We let everyone know when NH Chronicles will air.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
October 13, 2010
Group 1 went to visit Ben Chases dorm today. Ben is one of the Wildcat Friends Staff and lives in Hubbard dorm which is the honors dorm. He loves care packages by the way! In all seriousness though, students made the trek through the side walk behind the dining hall to a hidden dorm surrounded by trees and volleyball courts to get into the groove of the college student life. The students were confronted with both a pool and ping pong table and a flat screen TV in the student lounge. Our students had a fantastic time mingling, playing games of guess who and relaxing on the couches. During this time our very own Kyle took a liking to photography and caught some very interesting and quite beautiful pictures around the lounge. (There is a side show attached of Kyle’s work, please enjoy)
Class time for group 1 resulted in slow motion due to Alison Wilder, expert in Tai Chi. As seen in the photos , Tai Chi is slow, relaxing and requires practice. Students learned and went through the movements along side of Alison and were all very receptive to this new form of exercise.
Group 2
It was the perfect fall afternoon to walk through College Woods in the crisp fall air after eating a hearty meal. The college woods walk took us through piles of brightly colored leaves that had fallen and by a beautiful stream. Conversations with the 15 or so college students that came to hangout from the mini dorms were flowing as the walk ended at our classroom in Cole-Barton.
During class today group two learned about the 5 senses. There were 5 stations set up to learn about the various senses. Activities included tasting jellybeans and deciphering their flavor, playing with light to learn about pupil dilation, listening to sound through a cup and string, smelling various items to figure out what it was, and putting hands in various bags to figure out the object in the bag. There were so many activities, everyone didn’t get through them all. It was very informational and interesting.
Class time for group 1 resulted in slow motion due to Alison Wilder, expert in Tai Chi. As seen in the photos , Tai Chi is slow, relaxing and requires practice. Students learned and went through the movements along side of Alison and were all very receptive to this new form of exercise.
Group 2
It was the perfect fall afternoon to walk through College Woods in the crisp fall air after eating a hearty meal. The college woods walk took us through piles of brightly colored leaves that had fallen and by a beautiful stream. Conversations with the 15 or so college students that came to hangout from the mini dorms were flowing as the walk ended at our classroom in Cole-Barton.
During class today group two learned about the 5 senses. There were 5 stations set up to learn about the various senses. Activities included tasting jellybeans and deciphering their flavor, playing with light to learn about pupil dilation, listening to sound through a cup and string, smelling various items to figure out what it was, and putting hands in various bags to figure out the object in the bag. There were so many activities, everyone didn’t get through them all. It was very informational and interesting.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Wednesday Oct 6, 2010
The rain came down in buckets today all around the seacoast! At our group meal at Holloway Commons, many of our wildcats took a great liking to the corndog. Group two headed to New Hampshire Hall where they worked off those dogs and practiced catching with their dominate and non-dominate hands. Then students played a game of trashcan where students throw balls in a big circle and two people are inside and try to throw them all out. They then rounded out the games with the chicken dance. We unfortunately did not get pictures of group two today because of a missing memory card for the camera.
Group one had a rough day in the rain. Our outdoor activity was canceled due to the rain and then our plan B, Learn How To Use The Wildcat Bus, did not work as planned. Students reviewed the bus schedule to Newmarket and had to determine where, what time, what run and the amount of time the bus would take to travel to Newmarket and drop students off at Cole Hall for class. This was a flop when the bus to Newmarket was running 13 minutes behind and we were standing in the pouring rain. We then got confused and thought the bus to Newmarket was completely full. We decided not to get on. As we were walking back to Union Court, the completely empty bus to Newmarket went by us. Oh well. We ended with a hot chocolate so everyone was happy.
During class today groups one and two were combined with Suzanne and Anne for a theater style class. There were four groups and each broke down to do an activity based on acting. To begin class students were given a costume to show what its really like to get “into character” students really enjoyed this piece! Especially when wigs and facemasks were involved. Class came to a reluctant end with some lovely High School Musical karaoke.
Group one had a rough day in the rain. Our outdoor activity was canceled due to the rain and then our plan B, Learn How To Use The Wildcat Bus, did not work as planned. Students reviewed the bus schedule to Newmarket and had to determine where, what time, what run and the amount of time the bus would take to travel to Newmarket and drop students off at Cole Hall for class. This was a flop when the bus to Newmarket was running 13 minutes behind and we were standing in the pouring rain. We then got confused and thought the bus to Newmarket was completely full. We decided not to get on. As we were walking back to Union Court, the completely empty bus to Newmarket went by us. Oh well. We ended with a hot chocolate so everyone was happy.
During class today groups one and two were combined with Suzanne and Anne for a theater style class. There were four groups and each broke down to do an activity based on acting. To begin class students were given a costume to show what its really like to get “into character” students really enjoyed this piece! Especially when wigs and facemasks were involved. Class came to a reluctant end with some lovely High School Musical karaoke.
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