Career Day, Take Two

The kids came home very excited about having career day.  Each class had 3 different presenters. Since Matt was able to share his career with the 2nd graders (Brayden's class) last year, this year he signed up and requested to present in the 5th grade so that he could do Kylee's class.  Blake and I went to go see Matt talk to Kylee's class.He was very entertaining. Kylee said that most of the kids in her class enjoyed his presentation the most.

Besides hearing from an Ophthalmologist she also got to hear from a Pathologist, but she thought the presentation was "kind of disgusting."  The last presenter was an employee of Starbucks.  Kylee was excited that she gave everyone a cup that represents a free cup of hot chocolate.

Career day is a good way for business to get their name out and have kids tell their parents about their businesses and get them to come, which is the effect it had on Brayden.  He was very influenced by the gymnastics presentation.   On our drive home he told us one of the gymnasts did push ups with no feet on the ground and described all the fun things they have at the Powerhouse Gym.  Kylee, who had attended a party there, chimed in that they have a foam pit.  Brayden responded with "I know, that place is awesome."   He was very excited to tell  me that the Powerhouse Gym has a "Fun Friday" where kids can be dropped off for 3 hours for $15 while the parents go out.  After we got home from school he continued to talk about it and even offered to pay all the money he thought he had, which was $10.  I let him know that he would not be going to Powerhouse gym that evening.  In just 10 minutes later I let the kids know I was going to go to the store and Brayden not ready to give up chimed in, "That's the thing.  You can go shopping and we can go there (the gym)."  Matt was home so I started to head out the door to run some errands and Brayden in his typical positive persistent manner put his shoes on and said, "Alright let's go.  I am ready to go to the gym."   I let him know again that he wasn't going, but he kept saying, "I am ready, let's go."  He finally gave up and took his shoes back off.  For career day Brayden also had a person that worked in the Toyota plant visit his class.  He said that he showed them something top secret.  He wouldn't tell me what it was, but said that it had something to do with the paint section because that is the area that the guy worked in.  He liked that he gave them a pen, a brochure, and a back pack.  The last person that visited them was a man that works for the water company.  He actually got to see him last year also.  He was happy that he brought a little foam cone for everyone.

Julia saw the Northside nutritionist.  Julia said that she said, "eat healthy food and get moving. Do not watch TV all the time, and do exercising activities."  The nutritionist brought the monkey mascot that everyone got to high 5.  The second person for them to see was a DJ that works at the radio station.  Julia said "he can't mess up or everyone will hear on the radio station."  He asked them to raise their hand if they liked Justin Beiber, Julia said that she kept her had down.  Kylee and Brayden congratulated Julia with, "great job for keeping your hand down."  I asked if anyone raised their hand.  The last person she saw was a martial arts instructor.  Julia liked that they got to touch Karate weapons and put on karate stuff for safety.

At the end they have a person that the whole school gets to watch. He was a musical person that played the halo.  Brayden said, "it is an instrument that was invented 5 years ago.  It was awesome.  He has his own website."