There once was a lonely old pirate, who sang a pirate song. He sang his song until a surfer came along Oh ho ho, hee hee hee Hey, dude, surf's up!. OHHHH, there was once was a. . . .You might hear your children singing some form of this song. It has many interruptions to the poor old pirate an octopus, a singing mermaid, a police officer, a surfer, a helicopter, a shark, a submarine and I think that might be it. It's a very fun song and the children have some to really like it. My mom gave me two Cd's from a teacher she worked with this past school year. They are called Alphapop 1 and Alphapop 2. They have some older nursery rhymes set to more r&b/hip hop music, as well as, a lot more reading and alphabet songs on the Cd's. I was glad I found them in my daughters school stuff we had stored away. It is nice to have more of a choice in our song selections.
We began our day today with centers and breakfast. We had a little bit of trouble with running around and keeping items where they were supposed to be, so we lost a few toys this morning. The two larger trucks got put away for the day, they might come back out in the morning for centers. I have not quite decided yet, it will depend upon listening ears and following directions of the campers. Today was a bit of a rough day with following directions but we sure did have several good helpers. We have a select few that are ALWAYS stand out helpers and ALWAYS the first to follow the directions given. Those kiddos truly make it much easier on us when we have several who have a hard time with those two items.
After breakfast, we began with our welcome song and we sang only a few songs this morning. We have just a short window of time on swim days to do much more than call roll. We had every one get their belongings and we headed out for sunscreen. Once all the children were covered in sunscreen, we began our trek over to the YMCA. It wasn't quite as bad this morning on our walk over to the Y. It did begin to get more muggy on the way back. It progressively got worse as the day went on, but we tried to keep them inside, for the most part, later in the afternoon.
We had lunch after swimming at the YMCA then rest time. Please remember to always send in extra clothing for your children each day~especially, on swim day. The children are VERY, VERY COLD in the cafeteria and when they have to stay in their wet clothes it makes it much worse on them. After rest time, we had a little bit of wake up time before snack today.
The snack today was actually something they got to create. They made it then they were able to eat it. It wasn't what I was trying to work on, but it was MUCH better than my idea. Ms. Rachel came up with this plan and it worked out a lot better than my idea. The children rolled their pretzel in peanut butter and then got to roll that into many different types of cereal. We made our own mix of cereal. It was like a carnival creation of a snack. They really liked the snack and wanted several more. We may have to do that again another day.
We made clown noses after snack time. Unfortunately, several children left just as we finished up snack and were taking a bathroom break so not every one made a clown nose. If we have time between games, making sundaes and the cook out tomorrow we will try to get them made. I cannot make any promises though.
We have most of the Kamp Kermit Festival set up already for tomorrow :-D We are very excited and hope that many of you come to join your children! If you have any questions please call the front desk at the YMCA and they can direct you to a contact person. Thank you and have a wonderful evening!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
