Outside Day

This is the last week of school for the 2017-2018 school year.  The students don't want to be there and most of the staff don't want to either.  The teachers in my group decided to take most of the morning and spend it going between activities, some inside and some out.  My task during this was to escort the students between the in and the out.  I also watched them play some games with one of the teachers.  My highlights of this included:

1. Watching some of the students who don't like to participate in athletics play games that are at least active.  Sometimes watching others have fun is all it takes to try.
2. Noting to myself how much taller and more adult looking some of them have gotten in the past 9 or 10 months and wondering how much older they will look after summer break.  I remember as a kid how much my peers would change over the summer.
3. For one of the games words were rattled off until one particular word, cup, was said.  Listening to different students come up with the words, repeat words that others had used before and only saying two or three words before getting to cup was rather telling of their patience.
4. Laughing at their antics.

The above are my happy things for today.  

Another happy is Gideon and his 'adogable' Lego dog he and Z put together.

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