my summer job

EDITED--See the end



So I've got this "summer job" of sorts.




I'm going to teach a scrapbook class to kids at a day camp.



My friend used to teach kindergarten at a Jewish school in town (no, she's not Jewish--they had a Hebrew studies teacher and an English studies teacher...she taught the English studies). The parents of one of her students asked her if she would teach a class for the Jewish day camp that they run in the summers. She's likely going to be moving away this summer if their house sells (pause...while I wipe away my tears...I'm very, very sad about this, as she's my dearest friend in the entire world) and didn't want to take the job, but asked me if I would be interested. It pays well plus it's only eight mornings over the course of the next four weeks. It doesn't take a lot of time and I thought it would be fun to get out of the house and do something different and to teach something I love to kids (getting to use my teaching skills, which I really miss).

So tonight I met with the couple who run the camp. It sounds very interesting and I'm looking forward to it, though I'm still unsure about what to teach them. And it starts next week! Each class is only an hour long, but with stragglers and cleaning up at the end I'll really only have 45-50 minutes each time. I can't accomplish much myself when I'm working on my own scrapbook in 45-50 minutes. Kids who have probably never scrapbooked before really won't be able to. So I have to really pare down what I plan to do with them. And I have to keep reminding myself that it doesn't have to be a masterpiece.

So here's my question. If your child (daughter--age 8-12) was in a scrapbook class that you were paying for, what would you hope they would learn/accomplish in a one hour class?

EDIT: I seriously doubt that there will be boys in the class. They told me the boys always choose the sports options, or possibly, in a few instances, cooking, but they really don't think there will be boys. Sorry, Dad, but I doubt that there will be many golf or minor league baseball parks scrapbooked in these books.