When I woke up this morning I decided to try and forget about the parking ticket and focus on having a great day of camp!
Ryan and I got all set up and ready to go for the 23 campers we had yesterday when all of a sudden at 8:58 am I looked over and SURPRISE... 38 kids came running in the gym full of energy and excited for camp! I looked at Ryan and we both instantly jumped into motion readjusting our plans. While Ryan signed kids in, I helped make sure everyone had a name tag.
Since we had so many new kids join us today we decided to spend the first 15 minutes focusing on pre-teaching and reviewing the target and teamwork poster we made with the kids yesterday. Our campers from day 1 helped teach the new kids everything we talked about yesterday morning. We allowed everyone a chance to add new ideas to our target.
After expectations were clear we divided into 5 teams and had each team create a team name and a cheer that we will refer back to throughout the rest of the week. We then moved right into a water balloon team building activity that was by far one of the favorites of the day!
The Green Team!
The Red, Orange, Purple, and Blue teams!
Throughout the week we teach the kids generating and focusing tools that they can use to help their team solve challenges. This week we decided to try a new strategy for teaching the tools. We created a DI "tool box" and after the kids learn a new tool they can add it to the box. This has been really effective in acting as an anchor that the kids can always refer back to.
Here is our tool box. So far we've learned one new tool called Attribute Listing. Tomorrow we will add another!
Even though it was a crazy day at DI camp it was tons of fun! The kids had a lot that they were proud of so we let them hang their work on the wall.
Here is our great group!
After camp Ryan and I headed to the pool at our hotel where I surprisingly switched over from using teaching strategies this morning to using parenting strategies I learned from my parents to keep Ryan entertained. Those of you who know Ryan will probably agree that he is a bit of a wiggly kid. He doesn't really sit still. So our afternoon of relaxing at the pool turned out a little differently than I had planned.
Here's how it went down-
Ryan- (swimming in the pool) "Rachael, come play with me!!"
Rachael- (relaxing in a chair) "Ryan, I'm relaxing"
Ryan - "awww okay."
5 minutes later
Ryan- "Rachael watch, are my legs straight?"
I looked over to find Ryan doing a handstand in the pool. I quickly realized that I needed to come up with something to keep poor Ryan entertained so I remembered back to when I was a kid at the pool with my parents. While I relaxed on the side I scored Ryan's handstands and other water gymnastics on a scale of 1-10.
Ryan- "How was that one?"
Rachael- "Ummm 8.5"
Ryan- "WHAT????"
Rachael- "you're legs weren't straight and you didn't point your toes."
Ryan- "okay, how about this one?"
Rachael- "Better, I give it a 9"
Unfortunately this only lasted about 10 minutes so I pulled out another game my parents used to do with my siblings and I. Good thing I brought my purse along with all my change in it.
Rachael- "Ryan, want to play another game?"
Ryan- "YES!!!"
Rachael- "Okay, here's $2.60 in change ( throwing it all over the bottom of the pool), your challenge is to swim around and collect all the money.
Ryan- "OKAY!!!"
As it turns out, Ryan is quite the little fish! $2.60 didn't last very long so I went back and pulled out EVERY PENNY I had. I then threw in a total of $4.99 for him to go find. Ryan had lots of fun with this game!
Here's Ryan counting the money to see how much more he needed to find. We even practiced our math skills today!
YAY! He found all $4.99!!
It got a little awkward when an old man decided to go for a swim too. He just stared at me while Ryan closed his eyes and I threw money all over the pool.
I just smiled and said, "Don't mind me, I'm just throwing money in the pool for my friend to go find! Would you like to play?"He said, "ummm no" and continued on his way swimming around and over Ryan as he fished for coins.
Eventually I got bored and hopped in the pool to play "find the coins" too! That only lasted a short time though because Ryan is extremely competitive and I'm very much a "let's be on the same team and share all the coins" kind of person. We kinda conflicted a bit with this game. :)
After I got out Ryan discovered that he could just throw the coins around the pool himself so I headed back over to my chair. Unfortunately on my way, I stepped on a piece of glass and cut my foot. Only I would find glass at the pool and step on it! Luckily it was a small piece and I was easily able to pull it out. I laid back down in my chair and relaxed. I even got to take a short nap!
Overall, it was a very solid Tuesday!!
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