How's Daycare Going?

So I've now worked at my new job for just over a week and some of you have been asking what I think of it.  I love it!   Time flies by so quickly.  I am in there for 5 hours a day and it feels like little more than an hour.  It's absolutely amazing.  It's a gift from God.  I get to do something I love and I am good at and I get paid for it.    Even though the earliest I ever start is 10:30 AM, some kids arrive there as early as 7:30 AM and are gone by 5:00 PM.    The facility is set up as a daycare not a school.    As far as I know, when I am there, it is not necessarily structured like a classroom.  Yes they have the routine schedules and such, but there isn't classroom-like learning going on throughout the day.   The daycare does serve the kids complimentary breakfast and lunch plus an afternoon snack.   And the food they serve isn't just a small little of this and that, they have decent meals (us teachers and assistants get to eat with them too).   When I was there on Monday we had for lunch, meatloaf, buns, and pears with milk and a snack of goldfish.  Wednesday (yesterday) for lunch we had chicken and pasta casserole with cooked veggies and thawing (still really cold) strawberries.   They can eat all they can but there are a few rules first.   They are strongly encouraged to try a bit of everything, even if they don't like it, before they can have seconds of anything.  

For snack yesterday (Wednesday) we had quite a big addition.   Snack was pita chips and hummus.  However one of the girls in the class had a birthday so her mom brought in popsicles.   Normally kids only eat snack if they feel like it, well actually that's always how it is.   Snack is right after nap.   So we normally have only a few kids for snack, depending on what the snack is.  But yesterday everyone had a snack, because not only did they get pita chips, hummus, and a popsicle, but they got something else too.  Pizza!  One of the kids in our class, his mom works at a pizza shop.  So she was so kind as to bring in pizza for everyone.    Even all the helpers and some parents got snack yesterday.  

At this point I do not know what I get paid for this job, but that isn't a huge concern of mine.   Last Friday was the day time cards were due, so I hope either by this Friday or early next week I'll get paid.