"Tell about an opportunity working with a small group"

Last week when I was down at the Elementary school the class I help got the opportunity to go to the library. When they went to the library they were read a short book and then got a little paper with questions to answer about the story they had just been read. They were allowed to seperate off into pairs or groups or work alone if they wanted. I got to just walk around and see if anyone needed help, it was extremely interesting to see what kind of groups had formed.

When you're a kid and picking groups I don't believe you really think all that much about it, you choose you're friends and move on. It was interseting to see the people who were not automatically grouped up and what kinds of groups were actually formed. Most of the groups had 3 or 4 kids who were obviously friends and acted very similar, but then you'd get groups of people who hadn't automatically known what group to be in. I found these groups to be the most interesting, it was a more diverse group of kids who in the end probably learned better because they all had very different opinions.

This was really interesting to me because it still goes to show that to some sense their is "discrimination" not that these kids are really doing it on purpose but its still somewhat there. Something else I also noted from this activity is that its probably better to assign groups, because the groups who ended up being just the wish wash of kids left behind learned a lot more from the activity from the other kids who just grouped together with their friends and didn't really work as hard.