Adventures in Improvement
Today was just phenomenal and long, long, long.
Without boring anyone, I had quite an interesting try at “Team Building” as I had aforementioned yesterday.The kids came to after school and signed in….snacked and then divided into clubs.
Thankfully I had won over a young girl with candy who came down to my room to make me look like I had some student participation. I started by setting the room up as a sort of maze. I moved chairs around and little bicycles and tissue boxes and chalk to apply a “mine field” affect for the students….(if there were any)…By the time I was done setting up, I had about 3 more kids. (Praise Him!) And by the time I had divided the teams I had 2 more, and then I lured 2 more young girls in with the allure of nerds and laffy taffy.
I seperated the teams and told them to lead their team member through the maze with only words, because she/he will be blindfolded.
Each team went really quickly with involvement by about 2 or 3 kids total, lasting almost 5 minutes total. So I decided that it was time to move on playing another indoor game, it went a little better but was just a little to slow of a group to spend so much time inside so I decided to play the outside game lemonade. You can look it up, it’s kind of a fun version of tag…which is all these kids really seemed to enjoy either way…
But Lemonade went on forever, it was awesome and more kids kept joining us. I was overjoyed. (YES! YES! YES! FINALLY…..INVOLVEMENT!)
By 5 O’ Clock which was homework time, I sat down and helped a few kids out with homework….Couldn’t remember how to do a diagram to faction out composite numbers…(haha) but finished the day, nonetheless, a little closer, and a little more confident with to and with this group.
Hallelujah, Praise Him!
I started reading The Shack and am already through the first 90 pages, within hours, I can’t put it down….(except to blog of course) and went and worked out…I’ve lost 2 pounds this week!
Things seem good, I am happy and I feel really LOVED.
Thank you JESUS from whom ALL blessings flow!
