May’s Missions Accomplished: Recapped

Lara has been away, and keeping up the pace without my second lieutenant has been a mission of its own…

Don’t get me wrong! We have accomplished missions! Tonnes of them! If anything, the kids and I are getting better and better at this game. And Christa, our amazing, up-for-anything, afternoon substitute teacher jumped so smoothly into the fieldtrip protocols that it feels like she’s been with us all along!

The Mission Box has eight pockets, and when we get it out, all the kids get ready to pick their missions. With topics like “Help a teacher,” “How many…?”, and the dreaded “Added Challenge,” the main mission is just the beginning. Everyone gets a mission! And it’s been going really well.

May 6th, Lara and the kids went to the Tyee Elementary school fair and fundraiser/plant sale.  The job was to buy something for the planter in the cubby area that had died. There ended up being a bouncy slide!

On May 20, the job was to weed out the garden boxes in front of Buddings, PLUS! the kids also picked a fresh round of photo missions, and items to bring back.

And last week, we went to the supermarket, for something that could be baked into a pie…

With great walking from our six troupers, Christa and I led the group to City Square Mall for something to be baked into a pie. (We picked apples.)

Brooklyn led the whole group in a funny dance, we said “have a nice day” to everyone we saw, including this adorable dog in a sweater and stroller, for a bonus point.

Maksim and Daniel folded the towels, and they, and Sylvie also gave Benson a bath and walked him around the block.

A man wearing a headwrap taught us to say “What time is in?” in Punjabi (they use the word “time” and “hoaa” to mean it’s a question), we took a big group pic with a man in a hat, who also had a bicycle, and we even had time, on the way back, to run the giant ramp. Without screaming. Woo-hoo!

Plus! Emily kept track of how many birds we saw: 30!

I think that makes… 98 pts.!

This week, Lara is back, so she and the kids will be returning the library books. For a start…