Long Morning

As soon as I walked into the daycare this morning, coming back from my week on spring break I had many things that they wanted me to do. My first task was to make play dough! I haven't made play dough in a few years. I'm surprised I remembered how, even though I know it's easy. I am sitting here right now typing this post, with green dye from the play dough still on my hands.
After that I had to cut out the papers we needed for art time. Once I was done that I was able to interact with the children! All they wanted to do was go outside and play since it was such a nice day out. So that was all that was on their minds! It was impossible to keep their attention on their art projects because that was the last thing they wanted to do at that time. So I suggested to the teacher to take them out first, that way they could get it out of their system. And it worked! After the children came back in from playing outside for about 30 minutes, they were ready for the tasks they had to complete that morning.
There was one point where I wanted to pull my hair out, Once one child goes to the drinking fountain.. they all follow! Puddles of water everywhere, and once I cleaned one up, there was another one.
Over all it was a good morning, besides the water spill! I am feeling more involved when I walk through the door, since they had some jobs for me to do. Yet I still get to interact with the children!