Thursday, April 19, 2012

A Mole Lot Of Fun!

Our guacamole recipe!
This week, we made Guacamole with Georgia King Village and Bradly Court. Guacamole has avocado which conatins Vitiman A. This is good for your eye sight.  The guacamole was used for a dip while the kids used tortilla chips to dip inside. They enjoyed the guacamole even though they thought it looked gross at first. We altered the recipe a little. We used salsa instead of tomatos and onions, but it turned out great! Therefore you can try it that way. Overall everything went well and the kids really loved it.
Making guacamole at Georgia King Village

Guacamole and salsa at Bradley Court



Gardening Developments

Good news, guys! Our plants have made progress! About a month ago, we planted seeds such as radish, lettuce, carrots etc. When we went to Georgia King Village this week, the plants had grown about 3 inches tall. That was really good, but when we went to Bradley Court today, guess what? They had grown 7.5 inches tall! We were really surprised at how tall it had grown. So today we watered the plants and weeded the plant beds. We are hoping to see an even greater progress next week! Can't wait!

GKV March 28, 2012
GKV April 18, 2012
BC March 29, 2012
BC April 19, 2012

Environmental Uno

Our activity for this week was to play Environmental Uno. For those who haven't played Uno or forgot how to play, it its very simple. All you have to do is match the number and/or color to the card on top of the deck. When one of the players has one card left they say Uno or Uno out. The first player to get rid of all his cards wins.
With environmental Uno, we had the cards in different categories. For example, there were red, blue, green, and brown sections that correspond to different things in the environment. At Georgia King Village, since there were a few more kids then expected, we had to split the group of about 8 in half. In all, the game went on smoothly and the kids seemed to enjoy it. We only had time for one game because the first one took a little longer than usual.




As for Bradly Court, unfortunately we didn't have time to do the game of Environmental Uno. Instead, we took the kids outside and had them play Simon says. At first, it was a little crazy because the kids didn't want to listen, but after a while, they did, and we got the game started. But that's not all, we also had the kids who lost at Simon says go with another Junior Ranger to play Red Light Green Light so they wouldn't get bored.





We are happy to teach kids fun games to keep their bodies and minds active!