Last Day :(

 Today was my last day of work experience, I cannot believe its over. I had such a great time and gained so many new experiences from it. I would consider doing child care in the future.

 The staff had a meeting on this morning so Katie, Ciara and I were all upstairs with the younger children. I had missed them all so much and it was great to be with them on my last day. I got to play with them all, coloured and make jigsaws but I then  had to go downstairs to the older group.

 I played loads of games and made loads of jigsaws with them. We also painted Christmas pictures like Santa, snowmen, angels,Christmas trees and a lot more. Most of it ended up on my hand anyways and not the paper! They really enjoyed it. We couldn't go outside as it was to frosty and dangerous for the children in case they would fall. We sang loads of Christmas songs instead and then it was home time! :(

I returned then for the after school group. We coloured with them a lot and they had there dinner. While they were eating I weighed out the ingredients so they could bake some FLAPJACKS!!!! They loved the baking and then after that Katie and I had to clean all the bowls and dishes in the Kitchen.  The flapjacks turned out really well in the end :)

I helped them put up the Christmas Tree with all the children. It was such a novelty to them and us! . They loved helping out while wearing their Santa hats! We finally got the tree up and put on all the lights so we decorated the tree and the rest of the building.

It was then Home time for Katie, Ciara and I,  the staff and children thanked us and we all had a cookie to celebrate. It was really nice of them to take us on for the ten weeks and I certainly had a brilliant time. I am really going to miss it now and thanks to all the members of Happy Days for giving me the experience :).

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Week 9 :)

 Yesterday was my ninth week of work experience. I changed groups again so I was with the slightly older children. I made  owls with them out of cotton wool and painted them with brown and white paint. I played different games with the children and then went outside to play. I made alot of jigsaws too and they really loved it.They had their lunch which took a while and After that it was home time.

 In The after school care I was with the group upstairs. There is only four of them so it was very quiet.  They played outside for ages and we did little jobs around the building for them like cleaning the room after they had their dinner and setting up activities for them when they came back in. I made scones with them so I went down to the kitchen to weigh the ingredients, which took a while as I had to find them all first! The mixture turned out very dry but it turned out good in the end once it was cooked. I helped colour in some of the childrens pictures and then did some Hama Beads with them , which is beads that you can make shapes with and then iron them to get your design. It was a very good day and I can't wait for next week,even though its the last :( :)

Week 8 :)

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  Today was my 8th week of work experience. This morning, I got to return to my group who I had from the start, and I was delighted. They had their free play as usual and they we painted. They were painting circles with different colours. Today was brown, green and blue, they were joining them together to make a snake.

We went outside for a while and came back in , played with blocks, sang songs and then it was home time!:)

  
  After Lunch, the children were outside for ages and it was soo cold!!! We went back in and we made a lemon cake! :) so each child got to help make some part of the cake. The groups then split in half and I was with 1 and Ciara was with the other! I helped the children colour, do word searches and cleaned around the room. I had a great time and I can't believe my time there is nearly over!!! :)

Week 7 :)

  Yesterday it was my seventh week of work experience.  I had to changed group so I am now with the older children. I was with half of them and Katie was with the other half. The main part of the day was painting the Van Gogh picture 'Starry Night' with the children. We also went outside for ages as it was a nice day but it was really cold!!

I returned  then for the afternoon care. We did not do much as the children were outside playing and then we went upstairs. We did help them to make blueberry muffins as Ciara and I got all the utensils out of the kitchen and then we weighed some of the ingredients. I had a good day and I can't believe there is only three weeks left.!! :) 

Week 6 :)

   Today was my sixth week of work experience :) Katie, Ciara and I all started off downstairs as they wanted us to help the children draw a Christmas Picture because they want to make a card with all there drawings minimized onto one. I then went back upstairs to my group. 

  The children were just finished playing with the toys so they had their lunch and we then went outside to play on the slides :) after that we returned to the room and read a story and then it was home time! There was a new girl in the group who had just started this week and she was really good and very cute!

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   I returned for the afternoon group and they were outside playing so then the girls and I went inside as our employer asked us to draw a picture for the card as well to be part of the staff team :) I stayed with the older children so they did their homework and then we started making dream catchers made out of wool and beads !! I had a great time...even though the day went very fast and I'm already looking forward to next week :)