About a month ago I registered to officially run a Punt, Pass and Kick competition at the middle school. I got the rules, score sheets, balls and tees. This was going to be great. I figured that we would start with the 6th graders on day 1 and end with the 8th graders the following…
Last week three of us went to the local elementary school and put on a game show during lunchtime for the 3rd, 4th and 5th graders. The game show was “Let’s Make a Deal!” Okay so we didn’t have a big set with huge prizes and kids dressing up in banana suits. But we did…
One of the after school programs I run at our local middle school is called Monster Theater. It’s an acting class with a twist. The students not only learn acting skills through traditional drama games and activities, they also help plan our haunted house and practice their chosen roles. This is the first time I’ve…
Work is piling up on me, I have to put together a haunted house, plan a lunch time game show, drum up participants for a limo scavenger hunt, answer the phones, register the person on hold, sell tennis court keys, plan middle school programs for the new brochure, reserve a couple of school facilities, email…
So we had a meeting today about what we’re going to do for Halloween. I’m in charge of special events and I felt that we needed to be ambitious this year and do a haunted house…something that this recreation department has never done. Of course, I decided this months ago and only now am I…
I work with all ages of kids but currently my focus is on growing our newly started middle school program. You may be wincing at the idea of working with teens and pre-teens and I feel your pain. Truth be told, however, I dig on that age. Yes, they are a challenge, but you can…
“They’re not snotty and they’re not all rich”, I said. My buddy who works with inner city youth in Pasadena, CA didn’t know how I could go from working with inner city kids at a Boys and Girls Club camp – who, as he says, really needs recreation programs – to working with upper class…
It’s a strange thing to work in a building with city or town employees. The more you talk with them and get to know them you find out that they hate their jobs. Sure they make more money then us rec heads upstairs but at the end of the day, I’d rather enjoy my job…
