Tuesdays

Tuesdays I volunteer at an afterschool program(If I'm out of work by 3:30pm). The kids are age 3-teenage and I work with the 3-4 year old group. I started 3 years ago when Riley was 3. This year she moved up to the older kids group, but I am still helping w/ the 3-4 year olds. I love tuesdays. I get to play with 3 & 4 year olds. I have 2 nephews and a niece in my group. This week we beaded necklaces. Some kids were into the project and some did a few beads and wanted to be done.

I love how they interact with eachother. At age 4 you can be best friends with someone after just meeting them...but if they take the toy truck you had ... they get body slammed to the ground.

We have atleast 8-9 kids each week. This week there were 14! It a lot of work. There's 3-4 adult helpers and a teenage helper (we need all the helpers we can get)(every adult helper has been fingerprinted and background checked). Someone always needs to go to the bathroom. If I'm taking 1 kid to the bathroom I'll make an anouncement for anyone else to come along. Everytime I get back there will be someone (with in 5 minutes) that 'has to go'.

We have a playdough table. I will sit (on the tiny chairs) with the kids and make butterflys, ladybugs...It's fun for me too.

We always have a story and an art project. These kids love to glue and color, use stickers.

And then our group combines with the older kid groups and we all have dinner.

I enjoy tuesdays. My inner 3 year old has fun playing with playdough and paints...