Olympics Week - Finals Tomorrow!

This week has been filled with Olympic triumph. The little athletes at my house are all going to win the gold!
Monday we started off the week with our track and field events. We begin with a softball toss, where we tried to throw the softball as far as we could make it go. Then it started to rain so we had to move the events indoors. Once inside we followed the softball throw with a few more events, the long jump, the hurtles, the frisbee throw, and the relay races. Our relay races consisted of the crab walk race, the dog walk race, the snake slither race, and the frog leap race. At one point the kids were laughing so hard they kept falling down. It was pretty fun despite the fact we were stuck indoors.
The second day was our water events. We filled the swimming pool in the backyard and played in it most of the day. The kids were having so much fun just playing we didn't accomplish all of the games on the list, but we did dump all of the soft bath tub letters in the pool and had races to see how many the kids could grab in 30 seconds. Also we practiced our letters and numbers trying to find the right ones. The kids also practiced putting their faces in the water and floating on their backs. So we did accomplish a little swimming practice after all!
Wednesday was our gymnastics day. We practiced our somersaults, cartwheels, handstands, headstands and rolling. The kids really enjoyed "flipping" with some of the moves, but I think I got more of the workout being a spotter! Today was our "Sports Day". We tried to do as many of the major Olympic team sports as possible. We shot free throws, dribbled and passed a basketball. We kicked goals, practiced "dribbling" the ball through an obstacle course and bouncing a soccer ball on our knees, we practiced hitting a t-ball, running the bases, catching and throwing a baseball, and lastly we practiced serving and bumping a volleyball. By the end we were all hot, tired, and sweaty!
Friday will be our grand finale of events. We will hopefully (weather permitting) be taking a field trip to Fontenelle park by my house were we will set up an obstacle course consisting of jump ropes, buckets, balls, slides, climbing, and more on the playground. After we complete the obstacle course we will stay and play for a little while, then the kids will be presented with their gold medals for the week long completion of Stacey's Daycare Olympic Games 2008! I will post more about the obstacle course tomorrow after it is all completed!
Below is a slide show of the week so far in pictures! I hope you enjoy and you should be proud of your children's Olympic accomplishments!

Olympics Week 2008!

In honor of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Bejing, China, we will be having our own little Stacey's Daycare olympics. We will be doing such events as field and track, swimming, basketball, gymnastics, and volleyball. Each day we will "train" for an event and then have a little healthy age appropriate competition. Then at the end of the week we will be going to Fontenelle Park to have our final event, the obstacle course of the playground!
I am going to try and make some little ribbons for each event and it should be a lot of fun! I am really excited for the kids to participate. So this will be our weekly theme.

Homework: if time permits in your household and it is okay with you, please allow your children to watch a few minutes of the Olympics while you tell them just a bit about what it is. Even if your children are not normally t.v. watchers, or you don't normally celebrate the Olympics in your household, it is a major world event that has never before happened in their young lives, and it's pretty exciting and fun to see! Thanks.

Second video clip of sprinkler Park

See the post below for more pictures and video of the Sprinkler Park today. This is the second short clip! Enjoy!

Sprinkler Park Revisited!

Today we were fortunate enough to avoid the rain so we could take our trip to the sprinkler park. Last time we went, Jared wasn't with us, but this time we had him to play with too. We all had a lot of fun. Tony was off work today so he was able to stay home with the babies so we could play just a little bit harder, and they were napping when we wanted to leave for the park.

Unfortunatley we had one little incident of Skyann and Jared running smack into each other, but beyond that it we had the park to ourselves.

I have posted the couple of pictures I took today and a video clip of them playing. I hope you enjoy. I love being able to share our days with you all, so you can see how much fun your children are having!