Pack Leader of The Week

Each week or so we gather together in our Tribal Council and either randomly select or vote for (off) one of the remaining members of our classroom to be the Pack Leader of the Week (P. L. O. T. W.) The honor and duties of the P. L. O. T. W. include, but are not limited to, being the line leader, running errands, leading the Pledge of Allegiance, distributing mail and lunch tokens, and getting a cold pop (or juice) and candy bar (or healthy snack).

The 2006 - 2007 Meyer Island Castaways

The Final Three

This final week of school found MD, SR, and HS as the final three survivors. The tribal council this year was a bit different, not just the final two remained, but instead all three survivors pleaded their cases and answered questions from their classmates. The voting was difficult, but in the end, HS took home the title of Ultimate Survivor. Congrats to HS, and to SR & MD for a fantastic year. They were most certainly role models for their classmates and found many successes throughout the year. Each was motivated by the philosophy of being their personal best. Thank you for a fantastic year kids!

Ultimate Pack Leader

Final 3

The Final Four had a difficult box out challenge on the overhead. The students seemed to over-think their strategies at times, but when the dust settled, it was ol' JR who was named this week's Pack Leader. Congrats on a long & challenging run to the final 4. He played the game every step of the way & always gave it his best.

The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer has nothing on this week's Pack Leader, Rootbeer. Congrats to playing an excellent survivor game. Rarely earning any votes, he is this week's recipient of the pack leader booty. Congrats Rootbeer!

The Fearsome 5 finds a strong survivor voted this week's Pack Leader. Congrats to HP, winner of two straight immunity necklaces. She played the game hard and did her best, making us all proud! Congrats.

The year keeps rolling as we are now down to the Sinister 6! Congrats to JHoop, this week's Pack Leader. The Super 7 competed in the dreaded ropes course. HP held onto the immunity necklace.

For whom the bell tolls, it tolls for AK, the latest pack leader. Missing work may have done her in as the choices and voting gets more difficult. She did however, enjoy her 2nd pack leader booty package of a pop & candy bar. The "Elite 8" competed in the most puzzling experience of their lives. Congrats again to AK, this week's Pack Leader & HP for winning the immunity necklace!

The "Nifty Nine" took the first ever GPS challenge today. The pressure was on the kids as it was a race against time to find the three hidden geocaches, gather the contents from each, return to the starting point and unlock the treasure chest. Against all odds, AK beat out the rest of the pack with a phenomenal time of 11:41 seconds to bring home the immunity necklace. She was the last contestant to complete & was feeling the pressure this week. Congrats to Tex, glad (to a degree) to be this week's Pack Leader.

This week's challenge was quite difficult, making the "Top Ten" really sweat this one out. Congrats to JHas, this week's Pack Leader! Enjoy your Pack Leader booty!

Two weeks have gone by with two new packleaders. Photos will be forthcoming, I'm trying to set up a Flickr feed, because I've maxed out my bandwith for this website (500 MB) and I'm already paying $14 a month, so I need to use more free resources on the net.

Congratulations to LS & LM, our most recent Pack Leaders!

What a busy week, we had picture person, the 2007 East Lansing Film Festival, a Mr. Meyer SENIOR "real world math" lesson, blogging, the kick-off for March is Reading Month with Basketball Jones, and lots of fun. Check out our pictures below. The immunity challenge went off with a few snafu's. Unfortunately, the Pirates won, but alas, some poor choices in the hallway during the challenge led to no immunity being awarded, so no one was safe. Congrats to ST, this week's pack leader!

Producers of Choices & Pie Man took 3rd place and honorable mention in the East Lansing Children's Film Festival - Congrats!

Mrs. Elliott took the challenge of shooting hoops in front of the entire. Basketball Jones explained that every choice has rewards or consequences, so she listened intently to his directions. She took a half court shot and "banked" it, winning an autographed basketball, and the admiration of students, faculty, and staff!

With a few weeks under their belts as new tribes, they've been working to "build" trust. Today's challenge really put those relationships to the test, in the Tower Immunity Challenge. We really needed Bob the Builder. The pirates nearly pulled it off, but the immunity idol went home with the Horse tribe. Congrats to AL, this week's Pack Leader.

The third annual Meyer Island idol was quite a hit. This year's celebration was a bit different from years past. Students competed in the Digital Dance Revolution game challenge & American Idol Karaoke Challenge. The quickest feet in the class belong to AWick, congrats for the fancy footwork. Many students (both boys and girls) enjoyed singing karaoke without the "pressure" of performing in a competition format. A good time was had by all!

We have new tribes & lots of pirates, R! Game-On part deux.

Coming and going. Congratulations to AK, voted back into the game by her fellow pirates, and to TB, who is leaving us to rejoin JA in Mrs. Gregory's class.

Back In Out

Only one week to go with original tribes, who will be our next pack leader? Following this week, what former pack leader will be voted back INTO the game prior to the reshuffling of tribes for 3rd quarter? Stay tuned!

Well today's challenge was the flying monkey shoot-out. It was close, but the skill and strength of Gold brought home the immunity for the last Immunity challenge of the original tribes. The voting led to a surprising revelation of a new pack leader. Congratulations AK!

Our Christmas week challenge netted Purple with the immunity and found us with LH as this abbreviated week's Pack Leader. Enjoy your Holiday pack leader booty!

Our class had a puzzling experience putting together a North American puzzle. Congratulations to the Purple Tribe who won immunity again. Congratulations to ZR, this week's pack leader.

This guy was hiding, we finally found him. Mrs. Obnoxious put him in the corner.

This week's challenge was a mental teamwork challenge. Tribes were given an grid & needed to complete the grid for the horizontal & vertical data. The first time through was a practice round. The second attempt yielded quite the competition. Congratulations to the Copper Tribe, who retained immunity. Another big congratulations goes out to MS, this week's Pack Leader!

Today's challenge was the slingshot shoot-out. A near-miraculous comeback by the Black Attack tribe yielded a shared immunity with Copper. Congratulations to KB, this week's Pack Leader. Enjoy your booty!

Another successful Halloween celebration was partaken of by Meyer Islanders. Check out the pics below!

Another challenge this week putting the teamwork of our tribes to the test. This week's challenge was the Injured Teammate Rescue. Tribes rushed to safely and quickly "rescue" their teammate. The Golden Gladiators pulled the sweep, ala the Detroit Tigers, and won both the Spelling Bee reward challenge, as well as, this immunity challenge. Congratulations to EH, this week's pack leader!

JA has made a switch and left our island. Good Luck in your future!

A first time challenge was given to the tribes this week. The Scooter Mascot Relay tested tribes listening, teamwork, and agility skills. Two groups missed a key instruction, which led the then "third place" team to advance to retain the immunity for this week. Congratulations to the Purple tribe, two weeks immunity and running! Congratulations to AWic, this week's Pack Leader. Enjoy your comfy seat & PLOTW swag!

Our first immunity challenge was taken right from an episode of Survivor. The "Balance Beam Switcheroo" provided the kids with a great chance to practice their problem solving, critical thinking, communication, and cooperation skills. Each tribe that went improved it's strategies by observing their peers. In the end, it was the sure footed-ness of the Purple tribe that helped them take the Immunity. Congratulations on a successful effort by all the tribes!

Congratulations to our first Pack Leader, EP! Enjoy your PLOTW booty!

Another team building challenge this week as students finally learned who their tribe mates would be. Each tribe is composed of six or seven "islanders" who are developing their 4 "C's" of Meyer Island through a variety of activities this week. Today's challenge was "Awww SHOE(t)", which involved honing communication skills for group members. The four tribes are working on developing their tribal nicknames. Their colors are Purple, Teal, Gold, and Copper.

We are learning about the 4 "C's" of Meyer Island. They are cooperation, contemplation, calculation, and communication. This week students participated in a breakout challenge. This challenge involved moving the ball across the gym without any students using their hands to touch it. It took several tries, along with many different ideas until a successful method was found! Following this challenge, students partook of a tribal council. Each child shared how they believed each other illustrated the 4 "C's" in completing the challenge, as well as giving kudos to their peers.

This week's team building challenge was "Tied Up in Knots", and wow what a result. The students worked together in their small "pods" to get tied up in a human knot. Each group then progressively worked themselves into tougher situations & "untied" themselves. Pods united to create more challenging scenarios, finally the entire class created a gigantic knot & after a few tries, they succeeded!