tues/wed

More equipment dropped off and installed. Really just making it so much harder to keep the kids attention in class. You can tell they are just excited about it all though. so new and so different from anything they have at home—similar to the way they play with the legos in class. Sharing is still one of the hardest things to do as they aren’t sure that they’ll be able to play with it again. and just the fact that “it’s mine!” Tire swing and climbing bars that they could play on Tuesday but the wooden house had wet paint on it so that had to wait until Wednesday before it was inundated with more kids than I would have thought could fit in. letters M and N in class—the book Messy Mark is a hit with his room so messy that he gets caught under his bed while looking for his bat. His parents will only help him out if he cleans his room. Feels like what I would like to do to get them to clean the classroom. Wednesday I decided not to fight the kids in getting them to come in after break…it was also well timed with another delivery of bars so we cleaned up the toys in the sandpit and balls around the grounds and sat on the wall to watch them unload the bars. All in a rapt line just watching 5 men unload and move around some bars—amazing attention. Then one of the boys turned to me and said “it’s like watching a movie” What??? Then I realized it was just like that…they sat in a row and stared straight in front of them—could have been a tv screen. Though the workers were quite aware we were watching as they kept glancing over and laughing some.