I feel so sorry for your situation. With all my experience I do not I have lasted any long.
Older children are energetic. But, I really have seeing a big difference when children are raised with respect and kindness from the beginning. I saw how siblings love and respect each other. (Parents very much involved in the process of guiding them properly, children had boundaries, really good prosocial skills)
In your case, you're only few hour with them, ( I'm not sure if the short time will allow you to be consistent). Also, don't forget these poor children have been probably sitting the whole day in the school in large and noisy crowds. They come to you with all that energy.
I have care for older children while running my daycare, but even siblings never had encounter a challenge like the one you have in your hands.
I used to bundle the babies really well myself too. And I will wait ready to keep them outside so they run that energy off. I had sleds, shovels, etc all ready. It definitely helped. I had all the necessary in hand for my babies I will bring them in and let them play while I'm watching the old ones playing outdoors. It did my days easier any misbehavior they will come in and stay with the babies. Soon that corrected their misbehavior. They loved being outdoors. All you're doing is great the planning, activities etc. But they do all that at school they're tired and at the end of the day just want to relax of run off energy. It had to be really awful weather to keep them inside.

































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