Quirky Quips & Sewing Snips
Christmas in Hawaii …. My team teacher, Ms. Jewel, is an artist. She does wonderful oil paintings in her free time. This little gem she painted in less then half an hour using tempura paints. It is on the back of the children’s cubby case. It looks so real David [...]
Twelve children. Twelve pallets. All are sleeping. The only sounds in the room were K.K.’s and Chez’s baby snores, the soft tap of the computer keys beneath my fingers, and the gentle swish of Ms. Jewel’s paint brush. Suddenly Harold, whom we’ve been nagging about using the potty, sits up [...]
. . . must be blood. Tis the season. Our classroom has geared up for Christmas. One of our first art projects (these are coordination and eye-hand control lessons) was painting, cutting out and decorating cute little reindeer. Pipe cleaner antlers and red noses must be attached. Alyce, our paraprofessional [...]
Every afternoon before going home for the day, we bring the children’s riding toys in from the terrace. More often then not, one or two parents are late picking up their kid, so all the little vehicles have “motors” and the teachers have only to direct traffic. There are three [...]
Barbecue sauce, that is. David-of-the-winsome-grin held up his barbecue sauce packet and said, “Hep, peas.” So I hepped. I took the slimy little packet from his slimy little hand, grasped it tightly and attempted to tear the end. Apparently David had been working on the packet for quite some time [...]