Saturday, October 14, 2006

Volley Ball, Girly Stuff and the Farm

This next week is going to be packed! The first Special Olympic Volley Ball game is coming up on Thursday.  It's an 'away' game and I'm going to keep the girls at school that day for an activity very similar to a slumber party. 

Why (I can hear you asking)? There are quite a few reasons actually.                                                                           1)Most of the girls uniforms are not here yet.                                                             2) The game will be a long distance from our school.                                                   3) The games doesn't even start until   11:30.                                                                4) We ALWAYS have to stop at the DQ for lunch afterwards, which is fine. I like DQ. But boys eat differently than girls. Boys this age eat like they have never eaten before. Girls just nibble and play with it. And besides, have you ever taken 26 kids to eat and have to be done in about 30-40 minutes?  Boys can do it, but these girls can't.                                                            5) Some of our girls have some rather significant health issues that clash with the timing of everything that day.                               6) None of the girls play. They don't want to play. None of them are tom-boys, they are girly-girls. Heck, they don't even do something as simple as walk their laps.

The girls haven't really reacted about it except for one. She stopped when I told her we were going to do facials and make-up and she could make me up. That in itself should be a hoot. 

The next day, on Friday, we are going on our annual farm field trip to the co-teacher's  (of the unit) family farm.  We've done this every year since he and I have started working together.  It'll be FUN!  Horses, fishing, 4-wheeling (my favorite!!), wagon ride, hayride, food, making scarecrows (no comments, please <grin>)!!  In the afternoon, we all get back around time for the kids to leave. 

It's a full, fun, busy, active day!! Heck, it's going to be a fun, busy week!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

What wonderful teachers you all are! Making learning fun ... now why can't that catch on?
Patrick