On Friday, April 28, Child Development, taught by Kristen Harrell journeyed to Adel Elementary to help in the mini Olympics. The ADM preschool class, along with New Hope’s Preschool and their parents went around to three different “concourses” to participate in different activities.

Two classrooms were filled with activities like play dough, creating passports, Old Faithful Geyser (Pepsi and Mentos), sand, a snack table, and more. Then, if you moved into the gym, the kids got to play on the Eiffel Tower (Jungle Gym), make a tower out of boxes and knock them down, stand on stilts, pack their suitcase in a relay race, fly their paper airplane down the runway, go snorkeling, play red light green light, and drive scooters around cones.

The day was split up in a morning session and an afternoon session, so the entire day was a new adventure for many. There was a constant stream of yelling and laughing from all of the fun the kids were having. The teachers agreed that they loved putting on this event for the kids because it gives them a day to be a complete kid, to just be themselves.

The Child Development class not only had to observe the kids, but they got to join in on the fun as well. “Hanging out with the kids brightened my day! It was fun to watch them all run around and have fun with us!” said Sydney Bertman and Bailey Danner, seniors taking the Child Development class.

All in all, after the day ended, the kids traveled the world and had a bunch of fun doing it with their parents, teachers, and high school helpers.