Everyone showed up today so it was a bit chaotic but we had a lot of fun! We found a game called bloxd.io which was pretty similar to Minecraft. There was a bit of trouble we had with learning the controls but we did our best to make it work. Together we started building a house,...

The group today started off with a game of Gartic Phone as suggested by *****. Everyone was excited to play the Exquisite Corpse mode, where each person draws the head, the body, and the legs, but the parts are mismatched, and each player continues the drawing based only on a sni...

Hello! Today we welcomed a new member into the squad, *******! Yay and welcome! 🎉

We started this session by reintroducing some of the basic goals for the class and what to expect. The game suggested for this session was once again Vortelli’s Pizza. I briefly went over how to j...

Today was a nice and calm session, we went back to our favorite game, Vortelli’s Pizza. We briefly discussed whether we could beat our previous record of 19 pizzas within a single shift and quickly concluded that we wanted a more leisurely session this time around. 

Our highest ...

Hello! We started the squad today by playing Sandboxels and we challenged ourselves to create a hamburger out of the options available. We took some creative liberties with some of the ingredients, but otherwise it contained the key ones. 

Half the group later switched to Vortel...

Today we tried something new: each person brought a game to share. First we started off with ****** showing us a new game called "Rail in the air". This is a game where we were on a railway track and had to pay close attention to the traffic signs, our speed, and the road to not ...

Today’s squad was just me and ******, but we still had so much fun playing Vortelli’s Pizza. I taught ****** how to host his own lobby in the game and he picked it up so quickly which was awesome to see 😊. 

Our goal for this session was to beat our previous score of eight pizza...

Today was a fun day! We started off the day by learning a fun memory game called "I Went To the Grocery Store...." In this game we had to go through the alphabet and list items we "found" at the store. Each new turn had to add the next letter - and list all the previous "items" w...

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Today’s Junior Squad opened up the session with some games from *****. The website has so many interesting, whimsical, and entertaining games/activities that are also a mix of educational and informative. Some of them aren’t games at all, but simply interactive visualizations. 

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Hi! We had so much fun today just playing different games; ***** hosted a game of Hexanaut at first before suggesting Vortelli’s Pizza.

***** and ***** showed brilliant teamwork and cooperation managing the pizza shop. ***** even had a system in place where she prepped the piz...

today we learned how to play some new games! We started with a classic game of crazy 8's. ***** was great at explaining the rules, and somehow ***** and ****** kept winding up with all the 8's. We had a bit of tech issues so while we sorted those out, we split up into two groups ...

Hello! I’m back after a long break and it’s so great to be back with the group again 😁. Today we did something different and tried out some new games from one of my favorite gaming websites, *****. It has so many weird, fun, and interesting games that are also educational. Notab...

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Today we did two very cool things! we spent a lot of our time together playing Yes and, a story game where we created the story together. ***** came in to help us with how to play, and everyone brought great ideas to the table! Together we wrote a story (keep an eye out on the fe...

Today ******** and ****** worked on their teamwork as they teamed up against me in a game of king of the hill on shell shockers. They worked together to create decoys, distractions, and diversions. Together they communicated strategies that left me wondering where they were and h...

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Today's session did not go according to plan- and that turned out to be the whole point.
Everyone arrived ready for ********** and ****** was super excited to learn to host for the very first time. We ran through the steps which everyone thought would be easy. It turned out not t...

Today we had a small group and decided to play some Shellshockers in capture the flag mode. I switched teams to make it even but we soon learned that ****** was very good at dodging our weapons and keeping the flag. ****** and I teamed up to try to get ******'s flag. It was great...

Today we practiced our listening skills, teamwork, and thinking outside the box! We started off with a game of House Hunt, where everyone was given a prompt and had to find an object that matched it to show on their camera. ***** displayed amazing outside-the -box thinking when h...

Today we started off with a calm but competitive game of hexanaut. We had a lot of fun working together to try and beat the king. We didn't quite get there but we worked on teambuilding along the way. After that we switched gears to a game of smashcarts. This game was a bit hard ...

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Hello! Today’s Tuesday Junior Squad had a full party and everyone immediately wanted to hop into Lolbeans. We spent some time before playing going over how to copy and paste links so that everyone can host a game of their own in the future. 

This session, ***** hosted a lobby by...

Great work today, everyone!
Today we tried two new games: a pirate battle royale where we fought for gold, and Hexanaut; a strategy game where we claimed space and worked together as a team. During Hexanaut we found a nice strategy - ***** worked on taking out the enemy team and ...

Great work today, everyone!

We struggled a bit at first with some tech issues but overcame them quickly and jumped into a creative game of Gartic Phone. Today we played a round of Exquisite Corpse, where each person drew one part of a creature without seeing the full picture.  T...

Hello! Today’s squad welcomed a new member into the group, *****! It was so great to have her join us; **** and I were already in a different game of Lolbeans, but ***** recommended trying out an amusement park map which is one of her favorites. 

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Great work today, everyone!
Today we welcomed *** to Recess Juniors and jumped into some fun games together. We started with LOL Beans, *** shared that he loves running obstacle courses in real life, so this was a perfect fit! After a few rounds of racing through Shark Park and S...

Today we spent some time playing custom levels on LOLBeans, and wow—some of them were really challenging! There were lots of laughs, close calls, and plenty of determination as we worked our way through the tougher levels.

After that, ***** and I switched gears and played a few ...

Today’s Wednesday Junior Squad went great and we welcomed a new member into our squad, *********! Yay! 🎉

We started off this session by immediately heading into a game of Lolbeans where we tried out some cool maps that had weird turns, long drops, and fast slides. We had so muc...

Hello! Today’s Tuesday Junior Squad started off with some technical difficulties in Recess Rooms so we switched to Gather instead. It was just **** and I today, so we quickly decided to play Lolbeans.

We’ve been playing on Lounge mode in Lolbeans for a couple of sessions alrea...

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Hello! For Wednesday’s Junior Squad today, we first started off with a great discussion about Pusheen, a really cute cartoon cat. This was *****’s first time learning about Pusheen, so ***** and I ended up spending a large part of the session just introducing her to the world of ...

Hello! Today during Tuesday’s Junior Squads we started off with playing Smash Karts due to a suggestion from ***** and it was so fun!

Smash Karts is a game similar to Mario Kart, where you collect items from the cubes lying around the map and hit others with it, but there’s no...

This week we decided to play LOLBeans for the whole hour. We had a lot of fun singing silly songs together and racing to the finish line. At the end of the hour we talked about a goal we wanted to achieve in 2026 and I heard some pretty fun ones! See you all next week!

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Today we had a lot of fun showing each other some of the gifts we got. We then played a game of House Hunt where the hardest round was the last one - shoutout to ***** for being the only one to find the item with all 3 things on it! We voted on what to play next and chose ****** ...

Hello! For today’s Tuesday Junior Squad we started off with learning how to add each other as friends on Recess. Adding friends on Recess allows kids to message each other privately and also if the kids want to reach out to a guide or me, they can do it that way too! 

After lear...

This week we tried a new game - a find it game! I gave some prompts and everyone had to find an item in their home that matched this prompt. Everyone did so well (except for me). ****** had to leave early but we also wound up playing some drawing games. We played exquisite corpse...

****! *********’s ****** ****** started off with reviewing what we learned in the previous session, copying and pasting links. It went pretty well! We decided that we would continue to review them every session before moving on to other activities until everyone understands and i...

Hello! Today’s Junior Squads started off really well, I set the goal of having everyone learn how to screenshare and then have them be able to do it themselves. We spent a bit trying to understand the steps before I had them try it out. Learning how to screenshare came in handy l...