Hey, That's Not Fair!

15-02-2016, 10:22 AM
It was a new week with a new aspect of Play It Fair introduced to the Senior OSC group: Fairness!

Last week we focused on fairness by playing the 'bead game'. Each player was given an envelope with beads in it and was told to go about the room playing rock-paper-scissors with other players. The winner was given a bead from the other person and both players moved on to play again. However, if at any point someone had no beads they were asked to sit on the carpet and were considered out of the game. Simple enough right? Here's the twist - the envelopes had varying amount of beads in them, so some players found themselves out much sooner than others. For every 1 envelope that had 10 beads there were 10 envelopes with only 1 bead. Though some kids noticed right away (some even shared their beads with friends) most had no idea why they had less than others. 

As Play It Fair is not complete without a discussion, when there was a small amount of children left (each with quite a lot of beads) we sat everyone down and had a quick but enlightening conversation. We started with the basics (did you like the game? etc) but soon kids were starting to pick up on the real point of the game - fairness. Nathan raised his hand and when called upon he simply stated, "Life isn't always fair."  This opened up a discussion about how some children have a different number of beads in their envelope compared to others. Rory commented that even when we are upset because our xbox was taken away, we should realize that there are other children out there who have much less than us. As fun as it is to play weekly games, it's always great to see the kids really understand the purpose of Play It Fair. 

The following is a review gathered by our own Johanna containing her own thoughts and some opinions from other kids about last week’s Play It Fair game.
 “I was one of the kids who had started with one bead and was out within a minute, but the life lesson (life is not always fair) taught me something and hopefully others too.”
-Johanna (JoJo)
                 
“I ended up having 11 beads. It felt great to not go to the carpet (the out zone). When Matt said that not everything is fair and explained some things, I felt bad for the people who are less fortunate.”
-Angel                

“I started with 10 beads and finished with 6. When I lost so many beads it made me think that I would end up on the carpet. What I took away from this lesson is that life is not always fair and that some people on the earth are less fortunate”.
-Annette              


That’s all for this week.


Until next time,


Brianna (and Johanna)
WRCC
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