Christmas Party!

Well the year has been going great so far! We've taken a couple of field trips, we visited the historical replica ships of the Nina and Pinta when they sailed into Newport back in September. The girls loved getting on actual ships, we were even lucky enough to get one of the men who sail the ship to give us a tour and explain what we were seeing! He was fabulous! He even told us how the men on the ship got their jobs, what their work entailed and how they lived below deck. It was really cool.



We also went on a field trip to help the girls who were new earn their Golf Badge. Jackie has already earned it so she got an activity patch instead.



We've earned the World Heritage Badge together this year, now THAT was fun. The first meeting of the year was all about Japan and I brought in a Bento Box filled with foods and treats. Plus I had Steve go to Ban Thai and pick up some take-out sushi for the girls to see. Some California rolls and also salmon. The next country was Morocco and we ate cous cous and had ginger cookies. I put some Moroccan spices in a crock pot and the room smelled delicious!



The next two countries were Australia and Germany, but I combined those into one meeting. Last meeting we started the Photography badge. I had Steve hook my laptop up to my projector so I could project the images I wanted to talk about onto the wall for the girls to see well. They had a hard time paying attention, and Jackie herself was a little too excitable to sit still, so when I review I'm going to think of a fun way to reteach this information. We are having to split the badge between the first meeting of December to the first meeting of January and there's no way they'll remember. I'll make a pictorial "quiz" for them.

Now today is a Christmas party, just for the class! Everything is always so structured so they can achieve, and that's great, but today is all about unstructured fun. I'm going to set up game stations, and card playing stations, craft stations, fingernail polishing, coloring, Christmas movie watching...and I need to come up with a group game or two that we could play to start the day. I'll end the day by reading them The Legend of the Candy Cane and giving them small candy canes to eat while I read. This should be a blast for them! Just some unstructured fun time, that's what it's all about today.