Parksdale

Hello After School Coordinator's!, yesterday the kids and I played a game called "Freeze Dance."  This is how you play it.  BTW, get ready for some exercise:)

It’s as simple as it sounds. Play some of the student's favorite tunes (or even some of your own) and dance to your heart’s content.

Then when they least expects it, yell “freeze!” and stop the music.  See what funny position's they wind up in.  How long can they hold that position?

I guarantee you will all love this fun game.  Enjoy!

Parksdale

"Boredom is good for kids"

Children are seldom truly bored, they just haven’t lately exercised that part of the brain that requires them to use their imagination.  Make a rule that if your child announces they’re bored, they’ll have to do chores.  So if they truly can’t think of anything off-hand to do…  eventually, they’ll think of something.

It’s a good lesson to learn that life is not always entertaining, and that they’re not the center of attention.  And if you’ve got a typical home, there’s actually plenty they can do.  So don’t feel like you always have to provide options and events for your children.  They’ll be just fine exercising their brain.

Cottonwood Creek

This past week we had a few wild and windy days!  The very obvious solution was to make a kite to enjoy this wonderful weather with!  So we did.  We made this simple kite by using wooden skewers, regular white copy paper, string, pipe cleaners and markers for coloring and decorating.  What a fun and very seasonally appropriate arts and crafts project.  Everyone knows it's Windy!

 

 

 

 

Joke of the Day

Q.  Why do melons get married in church?


A.  Because they cant-a-loupe!!!

Lincoln Plaza

Hello Coordinators,

 

Hope everyone had an awesome Easter and Spring Break.  Here at Lincoln Plaza we have begun to do more Spring stuff as well as begin to teach new fun activities where students can teach their families...kinda like train the trainer.  Since we have been having nice weather, this is when we should take advantage of it and do some outside activities, before it begins to get really hot.  This week the boys and girls did a sewing activity of their choice. The boys decided to do a Frankenstein and girls did a Virgin Mary out of felt.  I also taught the rules of a game that we will be playing outside this week.  The game is speed ball!

 

For those of you not familiar with this activity, you will need a football and two soccer nets.  However to get small practice soccer nets set up cuts the time of our game so we went ahead and used the basketball court.  The objective of the game is: you have two teams and whoever scores the most points wins.  When using the soccer nets, the person with the ball runs as fast as they can in order to score while the other team tries to intercept the ball.  The opposing team can tag the person with the ball forcing the person to pass the ball to his or her team members within three seconds.  If they fail this objective, the ball becomes the other teams ball.  When using the soccer nets, you do have the option of having a goalie, but with the basketball court they need to try to put the football in the hoop.  How fun is that!  Its soccer and football combined into one sport!!!  Yea Combo!  But at Lincoln Plaza it was Football and basketball put together.

Luigi, Virgin Mary, Frankenstein I'm so proud of all my students and the effort they put into their crafts.  Enjoy!!!

 

Cottonwood Creek

This past week was jammed packed with our Easter basket project that our students at Cottonwood Creek took on!  You can tell from the pictures below that this was a full contact activity.  We started on Monday with a balloon and paper mache paste that I made myself.  Then we wrapped the balloon with a few layers of newspaper and let it dry.  On the following day, once they were dry, we used a second layer of brown butcher like paper and then let that dry.  After that, we moved on to the painting and decorating portion of the project.  The last thing we did was put handles made out of pipe cleaners and inside we put colored grass.  On Friday we went out for our Easter egg hunt and the baskets worked out great!  The kids loved how they turned out and with all the hard work they put into making them, the finished product was truly spectacular!

 

Parksdale II

There's nothing better than playing outside on a nice beautiful sunny day, unless of course it's Spring break....then it's even better!  Yay for Easter!!!