Highland School Play Day and Book Fair!

Highland neighbors and partners were back at the school and park weeding, pruning, spreading bark, planting flowers raking leaves and more for Make a Difference Day, October 23, 2010.

Thank you for uploading so many photos. I can tell you played some super fun games.

We had 18 cheerleaders from McNary High School participate in this event. They helped run games and taught the kids cheers. Many were bilingual and were able to help communicate with our Latino neighbors! They were awesome!

Our volunteers from Sunrise Rotary along with a teenage boy (you know who's son) worked in the pouring rain outside shoveling much needed fall material under the play equipment at the school. It is hard to tell, but it is downpouring in these photos.....

What a fantastic turnout! Somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 people came to the Highland School Book Swap and Play Day event. It rained like crazy as it does in Oregon, but I had an AWESOME play day team and we moved it indoors and simplified our games: bowling, bean bag toss with a twist (instead of bean bags we had rubber chickens and pigs!), ring toss, book walk (walk for books instead of cake!), dance instructor, hula hoop instructor, and cheer leaders who taught cheers to the kids! We even had an indoor soccer game that went outdoors as weather permitted.

In addition to the games and books 76 kids got to sign up for public library cards, families learned how to call 911 information, artists of all ages put their sidewalk chalk skills to use and everyone got to enjoy lots of yummy snacks.

Everyone is welcome!

The owner of the nearby American Ballet Academy really got us moving.

The weather may have been soggy, but we had a nice dry gym to play all kinds of games in.

Highland Elementary studetns loved learning some moves from the McNary High School Cheerleaders.

Play Day participants enjoy choosing from hundreds of free books and reading stories together.

Despite the rain, volunteers spread hogs fuel under play equipment at Highland School.

Replace the fall material under play structures. Requires about10 people, hog fuel delivered to site, wheelbarrows, shovels, & rakes.