Hanging With Our Kids

Our bright idea for yesterday and today was to teach the kids the colors. I got them to repeat 2 colors back to me yesterday, yellow and blue (peela and neela). So after school yesterday, I bought this ribbon and thought we should tie a piece of each onto the kids’ wrists to help today. Well, this idea like many of ours, didn’t really pan out too well. But it was fun anyway.

There’s always coloring to fall back on… Or bubbles (yesterday) – until Mahak and her brother used/spilled them all… Or balls. (They LOVE balls)… I went to market and bought them some yesterday and bouncy balls. Wow they were loving today. We were kind of told that we were supposed to bring all supplies back to the house after the day. But… um…. Well… I figured, I bought them, I can give them away if I want to. And we let the 3 kids take home the bouncy balls and one of the big ones too. Was that so wrong?

Here I am with Parveen. (Yes, she's the one I am taking home with me. She is our favorite girl. Melissa is taking her brother home. So we've discussed the fact that we must move right across the street from one another - lol).

And stickers. They loooove stickers. Mahak and her brother decided to cover my whole arm in them. Other things we’ve been doing are chalk on the floor and puzzles. They seem to like all of it. Not sure they are exposed to these types of things at home. The only things the day care has are these 2 wooden flutes and the wooden/colored balls on strings for counting. It’s pretty sad. I wish I’d known this (or used my head and put 2 and 2 together) before I came because I would have brought a ton of stuff over. We were told a lot of the volunteers send packages back to India after they return home. They get friends/family/co-workers etc. to donate items and then send over. I definitely plan to do that, so if you have ANYTHING you think this school/daycare could use – save it for me!!

I will say both yesterday and today after 3 hours of this I was completely exhausted! Yesterday I was so tired I couldn’t even meet the girls for lunch I took a nap instead – lol. Gosh these kids have energy.

Love, Janelle