Happy Canada Day!!!!
(yesterday)
I'm currently helping out with summer camp at the school I teach at. I'm working with 5 and 6 year olds instead of the regular 7/8. I wanted to see if they were just as cute.
They generally are, and today I learned some useful lessons.
5/6 year olds are very happy playing tunnel (a game where you arrange a set of desks in a line and tell them to crawl under in a line). They love it - they love crawling on the ground. They did it for almost half an hour. Who knew it could be so much fun?
Had I suggested that game to the 7/8 year olds in my class they would have been thoroughly offended, as though I'd insulted their intelligence: Crawl on the floor?? The floor is dirty! (well, maybe not all of them would have thought this up - but you better believe if one person said it, the others would soon follow suite)
5/6 year olds play Blue-bird-blue-bird through my window until their little arms and feet are too tired to play any more.... so cute!!
5/6 year olds have difficulty playing games that involve going through the alphabet - some of them just don't remember that b comes before c.
The game "When I grow up I want to be a statue" - can provide minutes of wonderful quiet entertainment that does not involve running around. CUTE!!
So long as I can keep up my energy levels I think I'll be able to survive camp.
wish me luck!
