Returning to school in January, we decided to celebrate the beginning of 2014. We talked about the dropping of the ball at midnight in Times Square and watched a video of the final minute of this event. Afterwards, we had our own ball drop and did an activity to a song called "Happy New Year." This is a grouping activity where students travel about using various locomotor movements and then have to get into groups of a certain number of people when the number is called out. This took teamwork and cooperation. At the end of the music students got to do a countdown and give a friend a handshake or hug.
