DO NOT BREAK BALANCE!

We recently had a training at work, and as part of it, we were divided into groups and asked to play various preschooler games. At my table, we were given a game where two people took turns gingerly setting plastic monkeys on a plastic mountain which balanced on a small plastic rocker. The idea was to try to add each monkey without tipping the whole thing over. Now, this game is nothing I'd use with kids in my classroom, as a general rule, because it requires a) patience and b) fine motor skills, and my kids tend to struggle with one or the other, if not both. However, I did find something redeeming about the game: I could use photos of it as a cheat-y way to do a blog post.

So far, so good. Do not break balance, kids. Let's play by turns.


I appreciate the "please" here. And let's do make turn to put monkeys...somewhere.

The next time my kids play a game of Candyland or Cariboo or whatever, I'm going to be sure to refer to the other kids as "your rivals."


HOW MANY? HOW MANY?!? THE MIGHTY BATTLE DEPENDS ON YOUR ANSWER!!



Aw. In this last picture, it's clearly hoping that everyone wins. Of course, this isn't what happened in our group. Instead, whoever toppled the mountain was instantly cast out of the group for bringing much shame upon us.

It's possible we weren't terribly attentive to the original point of the exercise.