Eleven kindergartners went on the field trip today. Eleven came back.
I feel pretty good about that.
Yes, I’ve survived my very first ever field trip as a kindergarten teacher, a milestone that I looked upon with trepidation in the days leading up to our schoolwide expedition to Carver Farms, a beautiful and expansive patch of land [...]
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Shhhh…don’t look now, but Roy-tay Eber-way just friended me on Facebook.
Somewhere my inner 12 year old girl is spinning giddily in circles.
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As a fairly busy full-time homemaker and stay-at-home mom, I often wondered how women who worked for a paycheck by day and cared for a home and family by night ever found the time to do it all.
Now that I am a member of the legion of working mothers, I can finally and definitively answer [...]
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At approximately 6:14 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on this 14th day of September, after eight years of faithful and unshirking service, our Eureka Whirlwind Bagless Upright Vacuum sucked his last. His final moments were peaceful and productive, suffused with the soothing scent of Glade Peaches & Petals Carpet Deodorizer. No rogue Lego or forgotten marble [...]
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“Mom, is this your shopping list?” asked Caleb.
Distracted by an email I was composing, I glanced over quickly. “Yes, it is.”
I didn’t notice him writing on it, but later, when I picked it up, I saw these additions, scrawled in adorably childish hand, at the end:
WODRMELiN
TOYS
PETTATOS
FROTSNAXS
THIKINEGITZ
Can you interpret? (scroll down for answers)
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watermelon
toys
potatoes
fruit snacks
chicken nuggets
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And the [...]
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From the first week of school:
*While reading a story about pythons on the reading carpet, a felt a tap on my knee and looked down into Andy*’s mischievous grin. “Hey, teacher, do you want to see a python in real life?” “Um, I don’t know,” I hedged. “Because if you do, I’ve got one RIGHT [...]
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If the twelve students in my kindergarten class had a little pep in their step at the end of the day today, it was because they were sucking energy directly from me. Seriously, I’m tired. Who knew a few hours of herding five year olds could be so exhausting?
Oh, but it was fun. I was [...]
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Well, here we are. Tomorrow morning, bright and early, Caleb will start kindergarten. And so will I.
What happened to the whole long summer that I had spread out in front of me? I dipped my toe in the lake, slept a couple of nights in a tent, and suddenly twelve weeks have dwindled down to [...]
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