After 3 years of teaching statesman, this was Sister Nokes last class ever. She may be relieved about this, but I wanted to say thank you so much for giving us this opportunity!!
To begin the final class we held a debate.
There were 2 debates, with 3 judges and 3 people on each team.
Resolve: The United States government should open her borders to illegal immigrants.
We were given the topic ahead of time, but we did not know if we would be arguing the negative(U.S. should not open its borders to illegal immigrants) or positive(U.S. should open her borders to illegal immigrants)
The Negative side won both debates very closely
When the debates were finished we did a team building activity. We each got a bag of 12 different colored M+M's, and we had to go around the room and bargain until we had all of the same color.
This activity used our skills of convincing people to give us the M+M's we needed. It was much harder, even impossible if you chose a color several other people chose. In the end Micheal and Parker Nokes combined and won the rest of the M+M's
For our next team building activity, we all had to hold hands in a circle and pass 2 hula hoops around the circle without letting go.
This activity resulted in a lot of laughs and very tangled people:)
Micheal caught cheating;)
One of the hula hoops was sent around the wrong way, so a few unfortunate people ended up with 2 hula hoops at once going in opposite directions. I think you can imagine how that turned out;)
Finally we played jeopardy.
The first person who stood up got to answer the question (the bells were too big of a distraction)
The final score was not even close, I credit that to the fact that one team had a few hopping frogs to answer for them. Either way it was a ton of fun!
And a BIG thank you to our wonderful teacher, Sister Nokes! You taught us so much and we are so grateful for all the time and effort you put into our class!


















































