2nd Day! OMZ!

Okay so the second day. TOTALLY different room. TOTALLY different teachers. SLIGHTLY worried. There were a few things that worried me about this room.

1 ---> don't know what to expect because I'm working with younger kids who just turned 3
B ---> First impression of one of the teachers, scary
and 3 ---> Nerves are getting the best of me here

So after meeting the teachers and helping to set up the room and all that good stuff that I help with the last time I went to site, the kids started to come in. These kids were even smaller than the class last time and they were sooooooo cute! There wasn't any activity really to help break the ice, so I just walked around and tried to talk to some of the kids. They didn't really seem to want to talk to me, except for a few of them. They seemed to like to talk to pretty much anyone who would listen. I noticed after a while there were some similarities in the structure of the classes. they had circle time and they talked about their new friend and everything like that. After that, the seemed to warm up a little bit and they let me play with them. One of the smallest little girls really seemed to warm up to me because she had a tendency to follow me around and hold my hand and all that stuff. The teacher said that she had a tendency to do that ( get attached to someone) ....(I like the word tendency).

During their circle time, they read the "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" book and talked about stars and talked about who would be helping and who would be the leader and follower and blah blah blah. Then, the kids got to go to the Rumpus room (again, the rumpus room and I are becoming very good friends). There, they weren't really allowed to play with the see saw thinger because some of the kids were too small and might get hurt (not fun really). But they liked to play hide-and-seek the best it seemed like, so we played hide-and-seek until they had to go back upstairs for snack time. They had a 1/2 banana and some guppies crackers (like gold fish only...guppies shaped). I helped pass out the napkins and cups and all the snack stuff.

After the snack, the kids were allowed to play some more. They wanted me to play picnic with them, so I did and I pretended to get so full I fell over and they thought that was pretty funny. Not too long after that, I had to go back to school for class (Friday is a short day at the preschool) and just before I left, a little girl who hadn't really said anything to me, walked up and gave me a picture and a hug and ran off, grinning really big and giggling. I was so touched.

I have the picture hanging on my wall where everyone can see it.

Until next time
Annie

~Friday February 15, 2008~