On Thursday my class went on a field trip. As a general rule--I hate field trips! Chaos abounds, children get overly tired, and parent chaperones cause worse behavior in their own children :) BUT, this day was different. A local company OSP, located only 10 minutes from Shepherd, drafted their staff into doing something wonderful for local schools in the area.
They brought in a petting zoo which the kids were fascinated with!
They had multiple balloon artists to make three to four balloon sculptures per child. (I dare you to try to carry those around all morning in a large black trash bag!!!)
All their staff were dressed as characters. They prepared a very nice puppet show!
A staff person read three to four books to them. Our reader was a VIP--so we were on camera :)
Their were crafts, games, tattoos, IPads loaded with educational games. Every room was decorated to the hilt. AMAZING!
The kids favorite was a room with huge rolls of bubble wrap and some obnoxiously loud children's videos--they jumped around for about 20 minutes!! They then fed us lunch and every child left with a lovely gift bag.
I was totally impressed by the organization, staff involvement, and quality of what this company did (and it was the first time they've ever done it!!) Hats off to OSP (a electronic online store) and many thanks for a great morning for the Shepherd kids!!
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