Sunday, June 20, 2004
Allo again...I'm blogging for sake of having nothing better to do...and I need something to do to keep busy other than cleaning my playroom like I should be doing since I have to get up early to do that again tomorrow...but you know what...my leg really hurts for some unknown reason...I dunno if I slept on it weird or if it's because my muscles are so pathetic that they couldn't handle the two dances and one game I played yesterday...oh well.
Today was VBS day #1. Anna and I went in at noon to help decorate...and ended up staying til somewhere around 3:30 I think? We put up a "stadium" of kids, some cool banner thingies around that and the window and the white board, and drew a picture on the white board...Our room is the "friendship team" so there were a lot of smiley faces lol...and the overall theme was the Olympics, so we brought in some trophies and medals and some sports shirts/jerseys and such too. The kids were very interesting to see...There were 11 tonight but we're expecting 16 total I think; a lot of people probably didn't come today because they'd already had church, and because it was Father's Day. We decided that one of the kids was a mini-Zach hehehe...I'm not sure exactly what it was that made BOTH of us think that, but he looks like him and he's stubborn...and he acts the way I think Zach thinks...if that makes any sense at all...Like, the kid's a Zach that hasn't learned to keep his mouth shut or to restrain himself, so he just says and does whatever he thinks about. For most of the night, Anna and I just helped usher the kids to and from different centers, fixed broken nametags, and tried to keep them generally happy. Sometimes that last part made things interesting haha. At the end of the night, the kids got to use paper cut outs of people to create "themselves" by gluing on shirts and shorts and drawing faces and such. On each paper shirt, Anna and I were to write the name of it's creator, but some of the kids were soooooo picky about having it on the shirt. The mini-Zach at first wouldn't let Anna write his name at all, nor would he write it himself, as he had insisted on doing for his coloring sheet earlier. Then he told her she could write it on the back of his shorts-but that didn't work because the name had to show once we put them on the corkboard. Finally he agreed to let her write the name across the paper guy's forehead. Go figure. Another girl soon had a similar complaint...but at least she had a reason. Apparently writing across the shirt would look "silly." Please note that this is the same little girl who, after someone marked on her paper, which the teacher mostly erased and told her to draw a nose over the mark because it was in the right spot anyway, said she didn't want a nose. So apparently being noseless is perfectly fine, but having letters on a shirt is just silly *amused*. Finally I showed her another girl's actual t-shirt, which had writing to the side of the front, like a logo type thing. Then she let Anna write her name (or she wrote it? I forget) on the shirt, but only if it was off to the side. She was quite a character...One of the first things that happened was that the teacher gathered everyone in a semi-circle around her felt board so that she could tell a story from the Bible. The little girl actually raise her hand (before the story even started) and said "Excuse me, but I've done this like a million times!" It was so funny lol...she knew what she was talking about though...which she proved as she basically told like half the story before the teacher could get to it...and then she started humming "Jesus Loves Me" REALLY loud during the story, omgsh...and she and the mini-Zach somehow always ended up near eachother; meaning they shoved eachother and got mad at eachother a lot. I was kind of surprised that the teacher didn't really seem ready for those kinds of things though...I mean, she teaches kindgergarden; there's only a year difference in the ages. She was going to let the kids pick the color of the paper cutout people...and there was only very slight varriation in skin color in the class, with quite a range of paper skin colors...not that it really matters or anything, but I knew if they had the choice, they'd argue over who got what color; that's just what kids their age do. So I passed out colors to each seat while the kids were at the music center and there were no complaints so...possible problem avoided, and I'm all for avoiding the problems rather than having to get a 4 year old to stop crying. I think we only had one crier tonight actually...not bad. The 4 year olds next to us seemed kinda crazy though...They were the "Ring Leaders," so wherever they went, they had to have a partner, and they'd each hold one side of a hulahoop as they traveled...they were spinning all over the place and such lol. I saw one kid out in the hallway in major tears with his teacher...I'm not sure if he'd had an accident or just really had to go, because they were running to the bathroom, but he was screaming the whole time so I'm glad I was in the other class. We had some sweet ones...the first little girl to come in immeditately started telling stories to Anna and me lol, and she was always proud to show off her drawing or craft or anything else...and she was really agreeable to everything. She couldn't find a yellow marker that wasn't in use, so I asked her if she could use a crayon, and she just grinned and took it...and I know that doesn't sound like much, but some of the other kids would've been like "but I want to do my drawing in MARKER! *cries*" lol. They're all adorable though. In general, it wasn't too hard or anything; the kids were only actually in the room with us for about an hour, plus us walking them down the halls to other rooms a few times, so we had a good bit of down time too lol. I think I might want to do nursery next year (where the teacher's really little kids stay while they teach VBS)...Melissa's doing that this year; and we went to visit her...They somehow had a lot of volunteers and few childeren though lol; at one time there were 6 kids and 6 adults, until Melissa's mom decided that, since there wasn't really anything she was needed for there, she'd help out the other classes. She came over and talked to Anna and me for a while as we waited for the kids to finish their snack.
Ok so that wasn't exactly in chronological order.
We get to go back tomorrow through Thursday, from about 5:30-8:15ish probably, depending how much we have to clean up and if any parents come late. We'll have another teacher in our room some of the nights though-We were supposed to have two, but one of them hurt her back so she has to stay home, but another lady said she could come in a few of the days.
After VBS, I came home and talked to people online/phone and did some thinking about some things and blogged. I really don't want to go to bed...but I promised Corey I'd be in bed at 1...so...I guess I'll go watch some TV until then...bye!
Today was VBS day #1. Anna and I went in at noon to help decorate...and ended up staying til somewhere around 3:30 I think? We put up a "stadium" of kids, some cool banner thingies around that and the window and the white board, and drew a picture on the white board...Our room is the "friendship team" so there were a lot of smiley faces lol...and the overall theme was the Olympics, so we brought in some trophies and medals and some sports shirts/jerseys and such too. The kids were very interesting to see...There were 11 tonight but we're expecting 16 total I think; a lot of people probably didn't come today because they'd already had church, and because it was Father's Day. We decided that one of the kids was a mini-Zach hehehe...I'm not sure exactly what it was that made BOTH of us think that, but he looks like him and he's stubborn...and he acts the way I think Zach thinks...if that makes any sense at all...Like, the kid's a Zach that hasn't learned to keep his mouth shut or to restrain himself, so he just says and does whatever he thinks about. For most of the night, Anna and I just helped usher the kids to and from different centers, fixed broken nametags, and tried to keep them generally happy. Sometimes that last part made things interesting haha. At the end of the night, the kids got to use paper cut outs of people to create "themselves" by gluing on shirts and shorts and drawing faces and such. On each paper shirt, Anna and I were to write the name of it's creator, but some of the kids were soooooo picky about having it on the shirt. The mini-Zach at first wouldn't let Anna write his name at all, nor would he write it himself, as he had insisted on doing for his coloring sheet earlier. Then he told her she could write it on the back of his shorts-but that didn't work because the name had to show once we put them on the corkboard. Finally he agreed to let her write the name across the paper guy's forehead. Go figure. Another girl soon had a similar complaint...but at least she had a reason. Apparently writing across the shirt would look "silly." Please note that this is the same little girl who, after someone marked on her paper, which the teacher mostly erased and told her to draw a nose over the mark because it was in the right spot anyway, said she didn't want a nose. So apparently being noseless is perfectly fine, but having letters on a shirt is just silly *amused*. Finally I showed her another girl's actual t-shirt, which had writing to the side of the front, like a logo type thing. Then she let Anna write her name (or she wrote it? I forget) on the shirt, but only if it was off to the side. She was quite a character...One of the first things that happened was that the teacher gathered everyone in a semi-circle around her felt board so that she could tell a story from the Bible. The little girl actually raise her hand (before the story even started) and said "Excuse me, but I've done this like a million times!" It was so funny lol...she knew what she was talking about though...which she proved as she basically told like half the story before the teacher could get to it...and then she started humming "Jesus Loves Me" REALLY loud during the story, omgsh...and she and the mini-Zach somehow always ended up near eachother; meaning they shoved eachother and got mad at eachother a lot. I was kind of surprised that the teacher didn't really seem ready for those kinds of things though...I mean, she teaches kindgergarden; there's only a year difference in the ages. She was going to let the kids pick the color of the paper cutout people...and there was only very slight varriation in skin color in the class, with quite a range of paper skin colors...not that it really matters or anything, but I knew if they had the choice, they'd argue over who got what color; that's just what kids their age do. So I passed out colors to each seat while the kids were at the music center and there were no complaints so...possible problem avoided, and I'm all for avoiding the problems rather than having to get a 4 year old to stop crying. I think we only had one crier tonight actually...not bad. The 4 year olds next to us seemed kinda crazy though...They were the "Ring Leaders," so wherever they went, they had to have a partner, and they'd each hold one side of a hulahoop as they traveled...they were spinning all over the place and such lol. I saw one kid out in the hallway in major tears with his teacher...I'm not sure if he'd had an accident or just really had to go, because they were running to the bathroom, but he was screaming the whole time so I'm glad I was in the other class. We had some sweet ones...the first little girl to come in immeditately started telling stories to Anna and me lol, and she was always proud to show off her drawing or craft or anything else...and she was really agreeable to everything. She couldn't find a yellow marker that wasn't in use, so I asked her if she could use a crayon, and she just grinned and took it...and I know that doesn't sound like much, but some of the other kids would've been like "but I want to do my drawing in MARKER! *cries*" lol. They're all adorable though. In general, it wasn't too hard or anything; the kids were only actually in the room with us for about an hour, plus us walking them down the halls to other rooms a few times, so we had a good bit of down time too lol. I think I might want to do nursery next year (where the teacher's really little kids stay while they teach VBS)...Melissa's doing that this year; and we went to visit her...They somehow had a lot of volunteers and few childeren though lol; at one time there were 6 kids and 6 adults, until Melissa's mom decided that, since there wasn't really anything she was needed for there, she'd help out the other classes. She came over and talked to Anna and me for a while as we waited for the kids to finish their snack.
Ok so that wasn't exactly in chronological order.
We get to go back tomorrow through Thursday, from about 5:30-8:15ish probably, depending how much we have to clean up and if any parents come late. We'll have another teacher in our room some of the nights though-We were supposed to have two, but one of them hurt her back so she has to stay home, but another lady said she could come in a few of the days.
After VBS, I came home and talked to people online/phone and did some thinking about some things and blogged. I really don't want to go to bed...but I promised Corey I'd be in bed at 1...so...I guess I'll go watch some TV until then...bye!
