Au pairs from all around CT came together for a tour of Yale University, in New Haven, CT on Saturday Nov. 2nd
. Afterwards many stayed for the Yale vs. Columbia football game.
Category Archives: Fun Things We Do
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Fun Things to do with your Host Children:
Dinosaurs are fascinating but no more so than to preschool and young school age children. Check your local library for fact and fantasy about these prehistoric creatures. Take out some dinosaur books or videos. Westport Library will loan them for free.
Collecting stamps is a fun and easy introduction to geography, history, art and nature. Help your children start a stamp collection by sharing stamps from your letters from home. Ask your au pair friends for stamps from their countries.
Make a Pizza – Pizza is easy and fun to make and can be a nutritious meal for the children. Buy a ready-made crust, shredded mozzarella cheese and a jar of pizza sauce. The crust goes on a cookie sheet, then spread the sauce and sprinkle the cheese. Bake as directed for the crust.
Brooklyn Bridge Walk Sunday Oct. 6, 2013
Westport, CT au pairs joined other Fairfield County au pairs for our annual walk across Brooklyn Bridge. Even the weather could not dampen the au pairs’ spirit and fun. 
October Calendar
October 14- Columbus Day – Today commemorates the landing of Christopher Columbus in the “New World.”
October 23 – Game One of the Baseball World Series – In baseball the World Series is the championship games of Major League Baseball in North America, played in October after the end of the regular season between the pennant winners of the American and National Leagues. The Series winner is determined through a best-of-seven playoff, meaning that the first team to win four games wins the series. The World Series has been an annual event since 1903. It is played at the baseball stadiums of the two teams in the series. Baseball is so popular that it is sometimes called the “national pastime.” The word “ballgame” in the United States almost always refers to a game of baseball, and “ballpark” to a baseball field.
October 31-Halloween This is the day children dress up in costumes and, in many communities, go door-to-door to ask for candy. Safety on Halloween is extremely important – don’t take our eyes off the children and don’t let them eat unwrapped candy
Host Family-Au Pair Beach Party
Since we have had so many new families move to Westport, we had a Host Family-Au Pair Gathering at the beach Sunday September 8th. We all had an opportunity to meet each other, make some new friends and welcome some newcomers to our wonderful town. A great time was had by all!
September 8- National Grandparents Day
Take some time with your host children today to make a surprise for Grandparents Day. This is not a widely celebrated holiday, so grandparents will appreciate being remembered and would particularly enjoy a homemade gift or card.
American Football season kicks off this month The first game in the NFL is September 5th ~ Baltimore Ravens vs. Denver Broncos
American Football Simplified
A Football Game is made up of 60 minutes of play time. The 60 minutes is divided into four Quarters of 15 minutes each. At the end of two Quarters, there is a break called Half Time. On the Scoreboard you can see the minutes and seconds running out. The team with the most points at the end of four Quarters wins.
A football field is 100 yards long. There is a Goal Post at each end of the field (called the End Zone) one for each team. Each team has an Offense and a Defense. If the Offense has the ball and tries to score by getting it across the Goal Line – the line where the playing field and the End Zone meet, the Defense tries to stop them. The Offense gets four tries to move the ball 10 yards toward their own goal post. These tries are called Downs. If they move the ball down the field 10 yards or more, they get another four tries to move the ball another 10 yards. If they don’t move the ball 10 yards in four tries, the ball goes to the other team; we say the team “loses the ball.” The Super Bowl is the final game of the Football season when two teams play each other for the championship. The game takes place in late January or early February. For some people the TV commercials are the best part of the Super Bowl.
Multi Cluster Miniature Golf Event
Au pairs from all over Fairfield County mingled and met and played miniature golf at Cove Marina in Norwalk, CT Wednesday evening August 21st. It was a great way to end the summer, catch up with some old friends and make some new ones. A fun time was had by all! 
July Calendar
July 3: Fireworks at Compo Beach!
July 4: Independence Day was first celebrated on July 8, 1776 when the Declaration of Independence was read to the public. By the 1880’s, the Fourth of July had become the most significant patriotic occasion in the United States. The holiday is presently celebrated with parades, fireworks, picnics, sporting events, and music. Children can have fun making paintings of fireworks: Use a large piece of paper. Let children drop small amounts of paint (different colors works well, or just use blue and red for a patriotic look. If you can, get black paper and use red, white and blue for fireworks in the night sky). Have the children swirl the paint out with a spoon, let them keep swirling from the center, in all directions around the drop of paint. Some of them may overlap, and that is fine, too. When it is finished it looks like fireworks bursting in the sky. Or give the child a straw and have them blow into the pools of paint to make their own free form painting of fireworks.
July 9 The month of Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar and is the holiest month of the year. During Ramadan many Muslims fast from dawn until sundown, abstaining from food and drink. The fast is for self-purification and renewal
July 14: Bastille Day: On July 14th the French celebrate Bastille Day. This day marks the end of monarchy and the beginning of the French Revolution. A favorite way to celebrate in France is with a picnic. You can plan a picnic with the children – it’s a simple adventure to eat outside on a blanket. Or try the Picnic Memory Game. A player names something they will pack for the picnic, then the next player names what he is bringing and what the other person is bringing. This continues with everyone taking a turn until the list is too long to remember or everyone is laughing too hard to play!
July 16-19: Library Book Sale
July 20: Westport’s annual Point to Point Swim at Compo Beach. Event open to ages 10 and up
July 20-21: Outdoor Art Show along the sidewalks of Parker Harding Plaza in downtown Westport