saturday program

Today I worked at the ARC at the Saturday program from 10 to 3 since I have not been doing the after school program due to spring break. This was my first time working on a Saturday and there was only one girl I knew from the after school program and about 15 kids I've never met before. We did the opening ritual just like at the after school program and then did a craft where we glued different shapes and drew pictures to represent spring. We split into groups with one or two people working with 4 kids each. I worked with Eddie who is also in our class. After that we went to a nearby park. We helped all of the kids get into buses and vans and drove them there as a group. We stayed at the park for 2 hours and the kids had a great time. Jason, a gym teacher at the school, who is really good with the kids took a girl, I'm not sure what her name is out of her wheelchair and carried her up to one of the slides on the play area and took her down the slide with him. It was not as easy as it sounds but he did it twice and she had a great time. A lady who brought her 2 kids was watching all of us with the kids and Jason with the girl on the slide and she started crying and said how good of a job we were all doing and that it made her day to see all of the kids having so much fun. That is why I want to get into this field it makes your day to help these kids and help them have a good day.