Posted by: eiela on: 11 September 2008
This week we’ve been reading Maybe a Bear Ate It! by Robie Harris with my little ones. (K & 1st). It is such a fun book, told just as much through the pictures as the minimal text. A little purple and green monster is reading HIS BOOK in bed. Then it [...]
Posted by: eiela on: 29 August 2008
I love Kindergartners sometimes.
ME: What’s your name?
K student: “Freddie the Rainbow.”
Turn to my assistant to see if she heard the same thing I did. She did. (She has the best faces!)
ME: Could you tell me that again?
Second try reveals that his last name does rhyme with Rainbow, but is not, in fact, rainbow!
Posted by: eiela on: 24 April 2008
A Kindergarten student came in this morning on an errand for her teacher.
“Mrs. wants to know if her lemonade is done.”
I sent her back to class, her teacher’s laminating (lemonade-ing) in tow.
Posted by: eiela on: 9 March 2008
Horrible: Stolen $$
Hosting the Book Fair fundraiser this week & next. Constant flow of 2-10 kids at a time to shop, especially during lunch/recess times.
Primary Grade Teacher sends several little ones in to shop right after they finished lunch. About seven other kids, from all different classes, wander through while they were [...]
Posted by: eiela on: 18 February 2008
This happens at least once a day. Child will ask my Amazing Assistant a question. Amazing Assistant answers. Child will turn around to me and ask the SAME question again.
Me: Didn’t Amazing Assistant just tell you the answer to that question?
Child looks confused.
Why?
Posted by: eiela on: 14 February 2008
This week, one of my little ones wanted a particular book.
BF: What’s the book about?
Kid: It’s brown.
BF: The cover’s brown? What else was on the cover?
Kid: It had a dog on it. You know, the one ___ had.
BF’s wonderful library assistant, holding up a book she’s about to shelve: Is it this one?
Kid: YES!
I dare [...]
