School's Out For Summer! Part Deux

When I arrived back at the camp after lunch the kids were at the pool. That's right, the pool! They go swimming twice a day for 1 hour each time. You know what that means! Tanning time! It was pretty funny because an older kids challenged a younger kid to a race in the pool. When he said go he took off and the little kid struggled after him. Luckily I had my swim suit on so I jumped in the pool and grabbed the little kid and swam her to victory. We did this a few times until the older kid caught us. He was like, "I couldn't understand how she was beating me!"

After the pool the kids change and we do some read aloud time. It is funny how quiet the kids get during this time. I don't know what it is but every time I do read aloud the kids get quiet and are fixated on you. I love that books can still get the kid's attention. I think it was because the story was set in the fictional town of Pigbone. Every time I said it the kids giggled, which in turn made me giggle. For the rest of the day we kept saying Pigbone every time we got the chance.

Overall it was a good day. My job doesn't seem that difficult. I think because there is so much planned in a day. Here is a basic sketch of the day for you: kids arrive, they do free centers, we go on a field trip, we eat lunch, we go swimming, they go to computers, they go to art, we go swimming, we read aloud, we go to the gym, and then free centers until everyone gets picked up. It seems that all I am doing is facilitating the kids here and there. Seriously, a monkey could do it. A monkey from the town of Pigbone could do it...