Day 20

Start of a new week with 22 new faces for Splash! week. Only 22 new faces because Oliver and Scarlett from last week are back for another one. Think I remember all of their names already, but I guess I'll find out in the morning. Woke up to a thunderstorm, guess that's one way to introduce water week haha Rained last Monday, too, but today it was done raining by about 10am. Then, it was just hot and humid out.

These 22 new faces sat down in nice little rows without us even telling them too. Thought this was a great start to the day. After we went around the room saying our names and our favorite animal, we did a little lesson on the water cycle and freshwater animals. Then, we went on a zoo tour of the red pandas, trumpeter swans, ducks, and flamingos. Went back inside for snack and the animal presentation. They all got to pet Hercules the ferret and see Zoobie the parrot do a few tricks. Next, we went and fed the fish, came back and worked on our activity books, and then went to lunch. At lunch, I realized that we had two sets of twins this week - Cate & Will and Daniel & Alec.

I think we have another brother and sister, but I'll have to check with them tomorrow- Grace and Charlie. Speaking of Charlie... I remember he wanted to open the door for me at one point. This is Charlie:

After lunch the campers worked on painting their bags, which we had little canvas ones for this week. I got paint all over my hands today, not quite sure how I managed that, but I did haha

19 of our campers went home at 1:00 today, so we only had 5 left for the afternoon. Daniel & Alec (twins), Oliver (from last week), Kaleb (wore a red shirt today), and Samantha (our one afternoon girl). They all did a good job helping us clean up some of the board games first this afternoon. Then, we went and played on the playground for a bit, where they sweated up a storm. Did some craft projects, and then it was time to go. Those twin brothers got kinda rowdy this afternoon. I almost felt like I had more than five kids this afternoon, but all in all a good day, and looking forward to getting to know these kids as well as I did the ones last week.

Last night, I packed up most of my stuff back into my boxes, and then I loaded up my car tonight. I'm moving to Averee's house tomorrow after work. My last night in Ankeny with the Renz family.