I only got home a short while ago from Vacation Bible School and I am bone tired! How does Bonnie do it, managing those kids and their crafts, in such a short period of time, too! Quick, quick, quick we dash from one center to the next with our little children who really do not take direction well......We no sooner get them situated at a table for crafts and it is time to move to the next area. As usual, it is my "cat herding" analogy that comes to mind.
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Tonight my job was to help Jennifer with the little ones, moving them from Point A to Point B without losing anyone, taking kids to the bathroom (or pee pee, as the case might be!), help with their crafts, etc. I so prefer kids in the 1st and 2nd grade than the older ones, believe me. Some of the girls are feeling their age, since we take up to age 12, and have taken to coloring their hair with blue stuff, wearing partial gloves, all the hip stuff. No thanks! Not for me, my patience would be worn to a frazzle. Mike C. has that group, and he is no stranger to middle school kids!
This is the fabulous backdrop and GADGET the robot, borrowed from Victory!
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Kathy B. is leading the music and allows the kids to play little instruments like rhythm sticks, shakers, and gizmos that make a cranking sound. She also plays a song on the guitar that they sing along with and can clap their hands in time with the music. There is a DVD and CD that comes with the program that they learn hand and arm motions to, but I was really slow catching on to that! It went too fast for this old girl...
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When I went to get the pizza for the staff and those cleaning in the classroom building, I saw a rainbow over the river, taking the place of the space shuttle in the sky for me. Nuts! After exercising today at water aerobics and then having a lovely lunch with Maggie O., and then VBS, I am bushed! Good night, y'all!!
