Thursday, November 1, 2012

Hayrides and Mountain Music at The Children's Center





On Wednesday, the Children’s Center held its annual fall festival for everyone at the school -  babies through fifth graders. Students, staff and volunteers donned their Halloween finery – There were princesses, a Dora the Explorer, football players, fighter pilots, tigers and more. Individual teachers and groups of teachers designed activity stations. At the "spooky touch" station, people could touch grape eyeballs, spaghetti guts and mini-carrot fingertips. Others offered face painting, story time, a cotton-candy machine and pumpkin decorating.

“We all came together for a mountain-music jamboree in the middle of the morning,” said Principal Carol Kirby. Two members of the bo-stevens band - Jeff Shu, who teaches at Kernersville Middle School, and Richard Boyd, who works at the Winston-Salem Journal – provided the music.

“Our hayride through the grounds of Graylyn had a wheelchair-accessible ramp, so every child could participate,” Kirby said.  For the hayride, Bradley Wilmoth, a teacher assistant who also runs a lawn company, provided the truck, trailer and hay bales as well as witty running commentary via his megaphone.

“Activities were fun, but also worked on physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech goals without the children even realizing it - walking, grasping, communicating, making choices, etc.,” Kirby said.



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