Basically, everything we did had to do with apples. Apple books, apple crosswords, apple coloring, apple gluing, apple drawing, apple writing, apple snack, apple graphs. It was apple madness! We couldn't do any Halloween stuff because a few of the kids don't celebrate holidays, which was kind of a bummer.
The kids were ok. A few of them can be challenging, but we didn't have any huge problems. Basically I just dealt with some tattles, some whining, some kids not getting along.
I think the part of the day the kids most enjoyed was when we did the apple snack/tasting. The teacher had left me two different kinds of apples for the kids to try and then chart which kind was their favorite. I was going to cut them up during my lunch, but I ran out of time. I had to cut them while the kids were in the room, so I turned on the document camera and put the cutting board and apple slicer/corer under it. Then I used a funny accent (not sure what nationality it was!) and called it my cooking show. I pretended to be straining to cut the apple, once I told them they had to be really quiet so I could concentrate. They seemed highly amused by all of this. I'm beginning to wonder if they will request my "cooking show" next time in their room. :)
At the end of the day I had an interesting encounter. I was standing in the hall after the kids has left just supervising, and an older girl came back into the building crying. I looked at her questioningly and she mumbled out to me that she'd forgotten her backpack (!). I was puzzled because she was carrying a purple backpack on her arm. So I asked her, "Well, that's not your backpack?" She stopped and looked at me all puzzled. "What?" she said. I then pointed the bag on her arm and said, "That's not your bag? Who's backpack is that?" She then looked down and inhaled in surprise and said, "Oh. That is mine. I didn't have it on my back so I thought I forgot it!" I wished her a happy weekend as she went back outside. Poor thing, hope she has an easier day tomorrow!
2 comments:
Any time you want to come up to Astoria and use your crazy cooking voice for Wonderful Wednesday, the lady in charge of the puppet theater would LOVE it. Or a play, or whatever she can rope you into ;)
Glad you had a good day with apples and no one glued their hand to their hair or anything crazy like that.
Hugs, Rhonda
The story of the girl and her backpack made me laugh again even though I had heard the story already. I guess it's because I can relate to it.:) I wish I could have been in the room observing the cooking show. I'm sure it was very entertaining.
Love you!!! MOM
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