Quirky Quips & Sewing Snips
… fights over favored toys. … squabbles over listening to the story. …fights over who was helping teacher as circle leader. Today we swept no food off the cafeteria floor after lunch. Today no one went into time out for hitting his friend. Today all the children took a nap. [...]
Into his backpack went his cumulative work journal and his set of emergency clothes. We took his picture off the wall and put that into his backpack as well. I helped him put the backpack on. He tried to give me his string of extra-large pop beads, his favorite toy [...]
No behavior problems today — unless you count an abundance of hugs a problem. I am throughly fingerprinted from head-to-toe in love. How is it they know exactly the moment they’d better turn sweet or somebody will kill them? [...]
Most of our pre-K kids are language deficient. Our job is to get them to speak properly. Today I was gifted with three full sentences from three different kids. I should be celebrating, but …. I held up a green crayon this morning and asked Polk, “What color is this?” [...]
Sometimes it is hard to tell just who is teaching whom. I was doing eyes, ears, nose & mouth with four year-old David today as we were waiting for lunch. He touched his mouth, eyes and ears okay, but when I said nose he just looked at me and started [...]