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Olympic Day
By M.

Olympic day! Divide each grade up into groups depending on how many people are each grade, and assign each group a color. Each group for each grade has a different color. They are expected to wear that color somewhere on
the day of the olympics. Depending on how big the school is, they might just have to compete against the grade, but if the school is smaller they can compete against the whole school. If you are just competing against grades, every group for every grade doesn't need different colors, but every group competing against each other needs a different color. To explain the rest, I am going to

use an examle for the rest of the explanations. These are the colors I am using in the explanation: Blue, Red, Black, Green.

1)In each color group give them numbers. Ex)Divide the blues so a group of blues gets the number 1, a group gets 2, etc. Do that with all of the groups. It works best if 4 or 5 people from each color have the same number.
2)Start off with the star spangled Banner.
3)Explain the first event. Call of numbers Ex) Would the ones from each group come down? All 1 Blues stand here, etc.
4)Say go and have them compete. The winning team gets a point.
5)The team with the most points wins. 14 or 15 events are a good number.

Events could be anything. They don't have to focus on sports just fun little things! We did this when I was in 7th and 8th grade (my school only had 7th and 8th, and it was smaller so 8th graders were divided up and so were 7th graders, but we competed against each other- even though each grade had two colors, it was still which grade won the most events combined! It was a lot of fun!