Dear Parents,
Well, tonight was the last night and it was action packed in more ways than none. We had most of the group members present, but we were missing a fair number (four didn’t show). Those who did come had a chance to participate in one last LUNCH points certificate raffle and a gift certificate was given away. Also, they teamed up to play Bananagrams on the floor and it was amazing how quiet it was as they were all trying to make crossword style words from the letters. JH and JC seemed to enjoy having conversations together. EM appeared to enjoy herself and was conversing with CJ and SW. AC and ND round up sitting at their own table and engaged in animated conversations throughout the entire meal at Numero Uno.
After they played Bananagrams, the group was given a choice of three different restaurants to go to tonight. The majority of them wanted to go to Numero Uno’s so that’s where we headed off. Rather than sitting at one large table, they sat at two different adjoining booths with some of the kids as mentioned sitting in pairs by themselves. It worked out very nicely. The majority of them filled out parent certificates of appreciation and some of the kids who initially said they didn’t want to when told they didn’t have to changed their minds and decided to (if your child did not complete one, please don’t be bothered by this. We treat it very much as an optional exercise and my preference that they not be pressured into doing it, but that it be something that is a choice for them). We gave prizes also for the Bananagrams and everybody got an assortment of colored gelled pens and cool looking pencils. But the main point of our last session is as many of the kids said is for it to in fact be the last session. One of the interesting things that happened is some of the kids (MH, CJ, and EM) spontaneously wrote notes or drew pictures to me that were very nice to receive.
So all in all, it was a fitting end to the school year. Other than the very beginning of group, nobody had any significant interfering behaviors and they did what the group is designed to help them do, they visited and talked to one another and just acted like kids. Thank you all for intense but wonderful year of spending time with your kids.
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