Week Six at Daycare

As I walked in the gate, there were children everywhere playing. Then, its time for them to line up and go inside for a nice and relaxing time. Since all the children are mostly likely tired from running around and playing on the playground. When they have finished doing a little yoga, and stretching, they don’t have clean up time today because they had been playing outside. So a little girl with a pink shirt is picked to bow out the candle.

Another girl is told to pick a song for the rest of the class to sing and act out to. They are all enjoying this time. When its time to be quiet, they are quiet. Then they are introduced to a new activity. So three children are picked randomly to act out a story of which they got to choose from they journal they write in everyday.

This activity is really unique, because these are real stories that the children have wrote. They are asked to be characters of which their classmates have wrote about. They are all wanting to be apart of the acting out.

They all are called to do to do whatever the story says, while the other teacher records it, as if they are doing a mini play. They are really engaging in what the stories saying, but some are still shy, so they stand there at times. The children are all laughing and giggling. After each one they clap, as if they all watching a movie. When the teacher ask who wants to be who, they get excited and yell they want to be a character, that’s being featured in the stories.

While they are telling stories, parents start to come. One girl gets picked up super early because she is going out of town for the weekend. She was torn, because she wanted to stay to continue to act our stories and have snack time, but she was happy to get to leave early as well. When they are getting ready to leave. the kids get to sign themselves out. after they decided to do all of the children stories, its almost time for snack.

They then chose who are going to be snack helpers, so the two go wash their hands first, and then go to help set up snacks. The rest are picked in reverse order of who went last to who went first to go wash their hands and go sit down to eat snacks for today. The snacks for today are cookies, oranges, and water from their water bottles.

As they sit there, they are all enjoying their snacks, talking about each of their stories that they had acted out prior. Then they started talking about the different shapes of cookies that they have in their bags today. They then make a game out of it, asking who had what shapes, like it was a game of goldfish. Soon parents are starting to show up, and the children are just running up to them, and explaining their day. Some are showing their parents their paintings that they have done that day. Some of the children siblings have came in with the parents and the children are just as happy to see them as well. They just giving them hugs as if they haven’t saw them in the longest time.