The last couple weeks have nurtured substantial growth in the children's comfort and bonding with each other. They are getting into a routine now. Finish school, meet teacher at the tree and then head over the the flat rocks for a snack. The boys often zoom off to play footie for as long as they can, burning off all their energy and getting excited, while the girls decide to play tag or hand clapping games. It's nice to see the mentorship forming between the children that are only a year older, with the younger kids. It's interesting what a difference a year makes at this young age.
Last week we wrote out a list of acceptable behaviours and emphasized the way we should be acting in after-school groups. The kids were mostly responsive to the ideals (respect, appreciation, rights etc) and they enjoyed signing the paper to show they'd participated.
This week we explored Little Portugal and talked about why it was called that, and spoke a little about different neighbourhoods in Toronto. Yesterday we took a trip to the College-Shaw library on the way home from school. It seems they all love to read, it was refreshing to watch them gather around each other while they took turns reading aloud.
-kb
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