BBBS

Hello all!

This past friday Woodstock had its Big Brother Big Sister day. On this day, students who have signed up from the Senior school are paired up with kids from ECP-gr 5 and spend a few hours doing fun activities with their little brother/sister.

For this BBBS, I was partnered with a girl in kindergarten named Kezia. She was sweet, and a bit shy at first, but quickly opened up and enjoyed herself tremendously. For my part, I hadn't realized how much I missed being with kids! I am now more pumped than ever to come home and hire myself as a babysitter!

We started the afternoon with some getting to know you stuff: all the senior school students met up with their partners and were split off int their designated activities. For those of us ECP to grade 1, we were assigned pavement drawing!

Kezia and I drawing our names in the courtyard.

After a good chunk of time chalking (and reliving summer afternoons in the neighborhood I live in), my little sister and I went over to the junior playground for a game of "Monster" with Nina and her little brother. We also played in the sandbox under the climber, and had a swinging contest. 

Then, dinner! As soon as the call came Kezia leapt up and declared we should race to the dining hall. I accepted. She won.

Dinner was pizza, ice cream, and brownies, with rice and dahl if you're feeling particularly health concious. Oh, and coke/sprite was available as well. Yes, because it's a great idea to get a bunch of samll children completely hyped up on pure sugar...

Well anyway...

After dinner ECP-grade 3 was stationed in the gym. We designed an obstacle course in the gymnastics room, which all the kids really enjoyed, did relay races in the practice courts, and then the whole group of us fot together for dancing and a game called "Mingle". For the dances, we did "Peeling Bananas", "Macarena" and "Cha Cha Slide". 

Mingle was a great game to play with the kids. The way it worked is that we were all wandering around the gym aimlessly while Isabella sang "Mingle mingle mingle!" into the mike. Whenever she called "ONE!" we all had to sit down as quickly as possible. Last one down loses (I think the smaller ones among us held the advantage there). When she called "TWO" we had to either get on someone's back or have a samller one on our backs.

Hope and Kezia

THREE meant that you had to get into a pyramid with three people, FOUR you had to sit in a line of four people and sing "row your boat", and FIVE, you had to sit in a group of five with your backs to each other and arms linked. Much amusement all around.

After this last game it was time to leave. Thanks NHS (national honour society of WS) for organizing such a fun event!

And thanks to my little sister for just being awesome.

Emily