Fortress Week 3

This week was the first week I did not stay through Wednesday. I had to leave Tuesday night to babysit on Wednesday. This week was about patience. I find it interesting that when we were learning about patience my patience level seemed very low. We did several things this week that made it a fun week at Fortress.

Monday we had worm races because a worm does not move very fast or move at all when you have them race, so the kids had to have patience as they waited on the worms to move. The kids had fun with this though. Bob, who is constantly making me laugh, decided to play with his worm. He picked it up, held it, and was very interested in the worm. At one point, he picked up his worm and started swinging it around. I told him that he was going to kill his worm. He then told me that it was ok because his worm was not scared. It was really cute.

Another game we played was we put a sucker in front of every child. We told them that if they did not eat the sucker for two whole minutes they would get another sucker. Then I set a timer and we watched. Bob started to eat his sucker. We told him that he was out. After about one minute, Bob wrapped up his sucker and told us that he was just tasting it for a minute. It was really cute but he still didn’t get another sucker.

Tuesday we did a lot of the same games from Monday but we also did other things like plant flowers, and do some coordination things. It amazes me how much I love each and every kid that I am working with. They all have different personalities and they are starting to show more and more. It is going to be hard to leave when the summer is over.