Last week Chance had his first fieldtrip ever! how exciting is that? I am super excited about it and so was Chance. For the last five weeks of school the Kindergarten classes had been studying fairy tales and so at the end the section they took a trip to Storyland and I volunteered to chaperone. Chance was as excited about riding the bus as he was about going to storyland it seemed.
Storyland is a pretty neat place in City Park, a play area build around fairy tale stories. It was great because we could play and find the characters from the stories they had just been studying.
I had a group of three kids in my care for the trip and they were great. if you look in the previous picture That is my group, Renai on the slide, then Chance of course and Leah behind him. Chance and Leah are good friends in school, more on that later.
Above L-R: Chance, Leah, Renai
The kids had a great time playing and to fuel all that play we had to stop for lunch. We all sat down together and ate the great lunch that the school packed for us. I have been so interested to see what the school gives Chance for lunch I was really happy to get the opportunity to see for myself. (ham and cheese sandwich, carrot sticks with Italian dressing, a peach, grape juice and animal crackers fyi)
So we have heard a lot about Leah recently, Chance and Leah have become good friends in school even his teachers say they stick together during class. Chance talks about her a lot when he comes home, she is in a lot of his stories. One day last week Chance pulled this little bead out of his pocket and said is was a gift from Leah.
He has really gotten into drawing and painting recently, he has always liked painting but until recently was not into drawing at all and really not interested in crafts too much either. Now though he wants to draw, paint or craft at every opportunity. At the Fete there was a station set up for water coloring where Chance made two wonderful works of art.
He also did a coloring page of a sketch of one of the actual houses on Royal Street. He took his time getting it just right. When he finishes he is very proud of his work and we are very proud of the detail and attention he gives each of his pieces.
We all played Escargot too. Which is a French game a lot like hopscotch but the numbers go around in a spiral like a snail instead of in a straight line. It is harder than it looks.
Here are his two finished water colors.
At the park the parents put together an assembly line to get more balloons filled fast near the end we were getting pretty good. We had three rounds of water balloon fight. It took us that long to get some good rules together so all the balloons weren't gone in ten seconds
You can see the smiles on all their faces. Chance is in the center of these shots throwing a balloon in Octavian's direction. He came pretty close but one of the fun things about this little kid water balloon fight was because they can't throw them very hard most of the balloons bounced off the kids and broke on the ground.
They are reading Knights at Dawn, the second book in the Magic Treehouse series. Here at home we have checked out a lot of books on castles and knights and the middle ages in general from the library. Each Magic Treehouse book has a nonfiction book that goes along with the fiction title. So they are reading the fiction title at school and we are reading the nonfiction book at home.
At the end all the kids got some free time to run around and play then we all walked back to the school. Hanging out for celebration is so much fun. I love getting to see him interacting with his teachers and classmates. Also, he usually ends up getting out of school a little early since we are already there to take him home. it's a win/win/win.
Also, I just snapped this photo of him reading his Knuffle Bunny book in bed.
