1st Grade Junior Achievement

Darin once again did Junior Achievement for Amberly's class. I think it is a highlight for both of them! Amberly just loves having her Daddy come and be a part of her class and I know he enjoys his time with her there too! Junior Achievement is such a wonderful parent led program. For 5 weeks straight he was able to go into her class and teach a lesson about Communities/families/working/money/saving, Etc. I get to go with him on the last day to "help out". It's always fun to see him interacting with the children and watch how they just love him!
We're very happy that Chevron is a strong sponsor of this program and allow their employees to take time off of work to go into the schools to do this. Chevron is big on volunteering.

Ms. Danchenka's 1st Grade Class Amberly waiting patiently to get chosen.
The following picture was actually really cute. Their activity was a charades game. Each child got to up and choose a job and "pretend" they were doing that job and the other children had to guess what it was. The favorite job was Teacher. Here Darin is demonstrating to the children the activity and had them guess what job he was doing. Notice the glasses on the nose and I think he put on the board 1+1=3. They got a big kick out of him and he quickly was apologizing to the teacher saying that in no way was he describing her! They all had fun taking a turn with it!

Eureka Science

This morning I was able to go and help the 1st graders at Eureka Science. Eureka Science is a parent run science program at our elementary school where the children get to learn fun and exciting aspects of science. Today the 1st graders were learning about simple machines. It was sooo much fun!!! I was able to work with the children as they got to use a peeling machine to peel and core apples. When the apple came out it was actually like a slinky! The children loved it!! Other activities included using a screw driver, using pulley's to lift a carton with rice in it, using catapults to fling marshmallows at a target, getting on teeter tater's with a classmate, and some other small simple machines they got to experiment with. What a great program it is!!! I always feel so blessed for the wonderful schools my children go to! Amberly looked like she was having a lot of fun. I loved being able to be with her. It made me sad because when her class was done and my shift ended to go home she began to cry. It broke my heart! She wanted me to come back for lunch but I had lunch plans with friends and couldn't. I'm glad that there are lots of opportunities to volunteer in our schools!

Amberly (middle) using her screw driver to put a screw in a board

Amberly at the apple peeling/coring station