Field Day

Since we have an extra week to plan for field day, I thought I would write about it.  If your child has never participated in a DCE Field Day, I have a few helpful hints for you.  Take them or leave them as you will.  Field Day at DCE is a full day event for our children.  There are approximately 6 rotations and an hour long lunch.  The classes move by grade through each of the rotations.  Some examples of past rotations are; track and field, water wars, DJ Karaoke and snack, water balloon, water slides, volleyball.  I don't know for certain what this year holds, but it will be a similar rotation list.  The dominate theme is water.  Your kids will get really wet.  If your child has water shoes (which they can run in comfortably) this is easily the best choice of footwear.  The next best choice would be tennis shoes that can withstand some water (perhaps that old pair).  If you have a daughter, she should wear her bathing suit with a water shirt.  Girls are not allowed to wear bikinis without shirts.  I always stick Macy in her bathing suit with a thin swimshirt.  She tops that with nylon wind shorts (dry quickly) and her field day tshirt.  When it comes time for the water slides, she will take off the tshirt and shorts.  For Colton, he wears his swimsuit as his shorts and wears a swimshirt topped by his field day shirt.  Both kids wear water shoes (however I have learned to send a backup pair of tennis shoes as Macy received blisters one year from her swim shoes).  You will need to send a towel and I cannot stress this enough PUT YOUR CHILD'S NAME ON THE TOWEL AND EVERYTHING THEY ARE WEARING THAT DAY!  You will also send a separate change of clothes for your child to change into at the end of the day to go home.  This is a lot of stuff for a kindergartner (or any average child) to keep track of for an entire day.

Ok, next discussion point is volunteering....  this is easily the most fun event all year for which to be a volunteer.  Many moms and dads take off work in order to spend part or all day at Field Day.  As you can imagine with 6 rotations and hundreds of children, we need a LOT of volunteers.  If you have not signed up yet but are planning to attend, PLEASE SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER AT A PARTICULAR STATION, please do not just show up that day and follow your child around, this isn't fair to any of the dozens of volunteers who are working.  You can even pick your station and volunteer time.  You can also request a station that you know your child will be rotating through during your shift, so they are sure to see you.   We really need to know where everyone is going to be.  Please email  mpark1825@verizon.net if you can help.  We really appreciate it and need your help to make the event a success.  Your kids will LOVE seeing you there.

In closing, Field Day is a blast both for children and volunteering parents.  You will not want to miss it.

Lisa

PS.  DON'T FORGET THE SUNSCREEN and sack lunch for the kiddos (the cafeteria lines are CRAZY long on field day).