Day 18

Exhausted again today... but it was a really GREAT day again. Some of our more quiet kids were so energetic and excited today. For instance, little Grant was talking up a storm and constantly telling me to come look at things as we walked through the Discovery Center today. Gran'ts mom actually asked me yesterday if he had been interacting with the other kids. I said he had been quiet, but he was getting involved and looked happy. I was sooo excited to tell her today how he was excited, energetic, and talkative today :-) Here's Grant pointing showing me some of the poison dart frogs:

Since the Discovery Center has lots of turns and cave areas, we split up back into four smaller groups so each of us leaders had 5 or 6 kids to keep track of, which worked really well. We also used those groups as we headed to the train today, so we made sure we all stuck together. I started with Meadow, Grant, Oliver, Noah, Matt, and Cole. Cole and Quinn switched between the train and Discovery Center.

So our lesson today was about other things that existed during the time of the dinosaurs, which included some fish. So, we went and fed the Japanese Kois, which kids always get kick out of feeding the fish.

The animal presenters brought a blue-tongue skink and a tiger salamander today. Then, we went on a train ride, which the kids loved. They all were so good on the ride, and waving hello to people and the animals. Such a good time.

 The boys saw my camera and wanted to make silly faces, which I encouraged haha

Logan

Grant

Noah

Brody

When we headed down for lunch, some of the meals hadn't arrived yet. (Parents have an option of sending packed lunches or purchasing lunches through the zoo) Well, instead of letting some kids start eating right away, I made them all get back up out of their chairs, and we did the "Singing in the Rain" song with the actions, which went well, and I think we had fun with it. I think Averee might have laughed at me as I was swaying and singing, whipping that song out in an instant. haha

Then, after lunch we walked through the Discovery Center, which was really fun too. The kids were all so excited, and I loved my group. All our kids this week are pretty awesome, though. I'm going to miss them, but I'm sure some of them are coming back for other camps.

Here's a few shots of more of our kids in the Discovery Center from today:

Noah was another one of my coming-out-his-shell-kids today. He was so hilarious and entertaining. Here is posing for me down by the mural near the water lab in the Discovery Center:

So, my little buddies today were Noah, Matt, Oliver, Meadow, and Grant.

Meadow didn't do a very good job of listening to us yesterday, but the first thing she told me this morning was that she was going to be really good... she kept her promise, she was a lot of fun today. Gonna miss my little group. Brody is also one of our really well behaved kids that stays all day... Most of our kids that have been going home at 1:00 are really good. Little Brody, my dinosaur body guard at one point today (at least that's what he said haha) He's one of those talkative fun loving kids.

Really great day! Long post, but I had so many great things I wanted to write about today... I also picked up the photos I ordered, and I'm really excited to put them in the campers' folders tomorrow to go home...Well, good night everyone. I'm getting up early, and have a lot on my agenda this weekend, which I'll write about soon.