Independence is here...

Happy almost 4th everyone!  Today was a good day with the program.  The first thing I had them do was running.  They had to jump on the tumble trak, and then run up the stairs, around the balcony, and then back down the other set of stairs.  After that the kids played another game.  They had to run down the tumble trak and then climb through the pit.  The fun part for me was getting to throw dodge balls at them while they ran toward the pit.  Granted, I didn't throw them hard.  Once they got out of the pit they had had to push a mat down a small portion of the floor and back again.  Then they had to run over to some blocks and hop over them.  They then had to do some forward rolls over cheese mats a set up on the floor.  After that they had to do a straight jump off of a spring board and on to a porta-pit.  Lastly, they had to run back over to the tumble trak, in order to do the obstacle course again.  After they did that a couple of time we played yet another game.  This game, however, wasn't a running around game.  We played sort of pictionary, and it was really fun.  Everyone, one at a time, had to try something that was a healthy food.  While they were drawing, we all had to figure out what it was.  It was fun to see what they kids drew, and how they depicted it on paper.  The drawing was fun, but I had once last hooray for today.  We got to eat a healthy snack today.  I allowed them to make ants on a log.  This consists of a celery stick, with peanut butter and raisins on top.  It was a nice difference from the norm of what we do.

Lesson I learned today: When your tired, it is a lot more difficult to want to do fun things with the kids.