Things at the Thensted Center are continuing to go well. Last week, we went to Egypt and the kids made bookmarks with their names in heiroglyphics. Their favorite part of the day, though, was our mummy wrap; we had them get into teams and wrap one kid in toilet paper, trying to get as much coverage and style points as possible! We had a Christmas party with the kids on Friday (June 25th, halfway til Christmas) where we decorated sugar cookies and made some cute reindeer crafts.
The highlight of the week, though, was the marble incident. We have this jar in our classroom that we fill with marbles when the kids behave, and we can take marbles out if they don't...but the kids aren't supposed to touch the marbles. One of our little punks, Tanner, doesn't exactly listen to anything we say and has his hand in either the marble box or the Starburst bag 24/7. Friday was a particularly hilarious day for us because the kid finally got what he deserved--yeah, he swallowed a marble. Don't get us wrong, we made sure he was okay before we started laughing, but the face was truly priceless. Luckily, it passed right on through!!
This week, we've hit up Brazil for a carnival (made some cool masks) and the South Pole for a compass experiment and some paper bag penguin puppets. Since Stacey has been obsessed with penguins for her entire life, it was a great outlet for her to talk about the different species of penguins to people who might care!
Here we are with most of the Thensted Center staff. On the left is Ms. Dorothy, who works at the thrift store, then Dionne, who comes just on Fridays, Phillip dressed as Santa for the Christmas party, Julia, director of the center, Ms. Jean who is in charge of the Summer Program, Ms. Pitre, and then Tidy, the cook, is on the bottom row with us. These are some amazing people!On Sunday we got home from an awesome weekend in Austin--will post again tomorrow about it (with pictures, of course!)
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