Spring Photos

27 March 2010 - spring photos in the park. The River is unusually high due to a site lower down on the river being overwhelmed by spring run-off.  We brought our neighbor along.

Book Group - "The Cay"

26 March 2010

We read "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor - a book about a boy, Phillip who lives in the Dutch colony of Curacao.  It is World War II and his mom wants to leave.  Their ship is attacked by a German U-boat and he is shipwrecked on a deserted island in the Caribbean with Timothy and the Stew Cat.  Phillip is blinded by a head injury when the ship was attacked.  Phillip is prejudiced against blacks and learns to care about Timothy who teaches him how to take care of himself in spite of his disability.

Timothy taught Phillip to weave mats.  Her J is trying her had at weaving.

.C and J are playing battleship.  The East Coast and Caribbean were some of the most dangerous waterways during World War II for commercial ships were often sunk by submarines.

We made "No-Bake" cookies because when I lived in Venezuela we rarely had ovens and often baked these cookies.  Curacao is off the coast of Venezuela.

A birthday party for D followed our book group.

Sensory Group - Zip Line

Mar 24, 2010  RU has a Sensory Group for elementary school kids that want to come. They loosely follow ideas from "The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun."  The college students engage all the senses as the do things with the children.

First they had a snack.

 Then they got to go down the zip line.

Happy campers! They had a great time.  After the zip line they played with parachutes, colored balls - throwing them into a giant tube, etc. until the time was up.

Friends!

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