I started my week as Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz. My mother willingly made me a Dorothy costume for our Storybook Parade that we had on Monday. After our parade, I attempted to make the rest of the morning as normal as possible, but as the Special Area teachers were helping with the middle school Fun Fest (so our Areas were cancelled), that was a challenge. The kids were very adaptive, thankfully. I took advantage of the empty theatre and brought my fun Kindergarten music and we danced around a little to burn some energy before lunch. After lunch, we began our Pumpkin Math workshop. I had five wonderful volunteers to help groups weigh, measure, and count the seeds inside large pumpkins. The kids loved it! It was a very successful first "big activity" and I was pleased with how the kids handled the very different situation. The kids were so exhausted by the time they had counted all the seeds (one pumpkins had 770 seeds...that's a lot of groups of ten) that I popped in Charlotte's Web and let them chill for the last 45 mintues of school. I knew, being Halloween, they would probably have very eventful evenings anyway. And it was my birthday, so I took advantage of the video to clean and get ready for the next day so that I could leave right away after school. :-)
On Tuesday it was back to normal. And again, the kids did very well going back to the normal routine. The week seemed to go by really fast and really slow at the same time (why is that?).
Thursday was an interesting day. On Thursday I learned that I will never ever, ever, cease to be surprised in the education field. Why, you ask? I've been keeping my eye on two students, boy and girl, who are very very very fond of eachother (yes, they are five). Well, I found out that the boy had taken one of his mother's diamond rings and had given it to the girl sometime during that week. And she had taken it home. This exchange must have been done very very quietly because not even the other kids told me. I'm convinced it had to have happened during a special area or lunch, because in the room I always keep them in different places (reminds me of "keeping apart attempts" at camp). Thankfully they were able to get the ring back to the rightful place. After that was assured to me, I was able to laugh a little....ok, a lot.
This week is a 4-day week filled with the Letter 'I' and Interim reports. I can't believe we are halfway through the second quarter! After those first 2 weeks, time flies. I will also be able to see the sun come up (thank you, time-change) and will most likely be going home in the dark (sad face).
Alas, so begins another week in Kindergarten that I am confident will prove to be just as interesting as the past 11 weeks.
I love my job.
Til next time,
The Kindergarten Teacher
Soooooo cuuuute!!!
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