Mission #2 – Staff Wall Refresh
For our second official mission (after being hijacked last week), the 7 kids each drew a card from the mission box (worth 10 pts. each), and Lara got straight to work on the staff photos. Luckily, Isabel is also a photographer, so we were able to get a shot of everyone… except Johanna… Shoot!
Well, the staff photo wall is still in progress, and actually, we need to make another batch of cubby cards (see Mission #1), but our scores are getting higher with each outing, and the game is getting more and more complex!
My original goal had just been for the kids to practice teaming up to work together, and get some daycare jobs done, but mission fever has taken over! Everything is a mission.
Sarah’s Pirate Club receives their weekly messages from their oracle mascot, and Johanna and Monday’s Sun Shine class built their own solar oven!
The other day, after dropping some letters in the mailbox for me, Denet sent me this message:
We’ve already talked about how accomplishment gets your dopamine flowing, but who could have predicted how powerfully it would motivate the preschoolers. It’s amazing!
Sharing our mission cards gave us a united purpose, and made the kids into a team, almost automatically. They want to work together because they have missions to accomplish!
Big Kids Club is a social-centric program, but with Mission Accomplished, I feel like we’ve stumbled onto something amazing.
By sending them on real errands, maybe the kids are feeling more connected to the centre and each other, or maybe they just like having a fieldtrip every week… I’m not sure what the magic ingredient is, but Mission Accomplished lifting off.
When the kids are super excited, teamwork is a snap. And since we’re also supposed to be growing our instagram page, we took as many photos as we could. Find them below:
| Maksim’s mission: Baby Esteban – 10pts. | Dez’s mission: kids under a tree – 10pts. | Marlow’s mission: run the laundry – 10pts |
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| Jackson’s mission: bring a flower – 10pts. | Brooklyn’s mission: something yellow – 10pts. | Lara’s mission: new staff picture wall… in progress |
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For a total of… 65 pts + 2 BONUS pts.
Final score: 67 pts.
| Bonus #1 – It was a sunny day 🙂 | This beautiful lady saved the mission when Talia forgot to bring the money for the photos… lesson learned! |
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Hop over to our staff page to see the new pics! 😉
