Diary 140

Diary 140

Wednesday, August 5th

Among other events was the news, brought unexpectedly to me, that I am the new summer-camp teacher for Zoe (7) and Ellie (5). 

This they announced with great excitement, and then they proceeded to tell me exactly how to set it all up. That came as a relief to me, as I was otherwise a bit stuck for immediate ideas. Luckily they had their workbooks, too. They took charge right away, starting off by instructing me in yoga (I think I did pretty well in that one), and then we had circle time. Discipline was inventive. Ellie decided she could concentrate better if she did headstands. On the whole I think she was right. We drew, wrote, did general knowledge questions, used a lot of stickers, created and ate vegetable kabobs and laughed a huge amount. We had so much fun we never did get to story time.

I don’t recall my own early schooling being nearly this much fun.

Oh, and the raccoon is now dozing in the tree again. Closer inspection revealed that there are in fact four very large raccoons….