Arguably, it’s the best day of the year in forest school…A couple of times a year, the school invites parents over for a field day – once in the spring and once in the fall. I was always crushed during the previous ones since work travel always kept me away and I was “that parent”…you know, the one that never comes to any school things because they’re working? So I was super excited when this spring for field day, we were all here and we all made it.
Calling it field day is maybe a bit generous…In my mind I had been building this up as an afternoon of outdoor forestry trials and physical efforts. In reality, this is a brief jog around a small local lake with small stations set up where the kids do squats or throw rocks through floating hoops, or my favorite: jumping jacks while counting in English. Needless to say, our own toddler had an advantage there…And of course there is face paint. And medals…
She took of running with my husband in tow while I brought up the rear with our stroller and the whole thing was over in the better part of an hour – all the Danish families dispersed with their wee ones. Probably for early family dinners and a head start on the weekend. Part of me wished that they might hang around a little longer – it’s nice to be the parent that has time to participate for a change. But there’s always Fall Field Day to try to convince everyone to do that!
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