-Child tells me I'm beautiful, for the 4th time today
-Child hugs me and tells me he loves me to avoid doing schoolwork
-Child 1 and Child 2 want to make a gun with the pegboard. Child 3 says, "no, guns are for big people." Children 1 and 2 continue to make the gun. Child 3: "I CAN'T WATCH!!"
-Child 1 steps on Child 2's fingers. I tell Child 1 to apologize. I repeat it several times, because Child 1 is not apologizing. Finally, Child 2 says "SORRY, [Child 1]". (Hmmm....something went wrong there.)
-Child asks "Why are you wearing sandals?" I respond "Because my feet are hot." Child accepts this.
-Glue in my hair
-Asking children the names of things under the pretense of quizzing them, when really I just don't know the word in Spanish
-Child shows me his freshly picked booger and says "LOOK, A BOOGER!"
-Child sees me typing and insists on "showing me how"
-Smile and nod and hope it wasn't a swear word.
-Teacher asks child what color a brown marker is. Child responds “Poop!”
-Child asks me “Why do you always say ‘OK’?” Me: “Because I like to. You can say it too if you want to.”
“No, I can’t.” “Why not?” “I’m not a little girl.…er….I’m not a woman.” “Only women can say OK?” “Well…I’m not a ‘profesora.’” (Ohhhhh, now I understand.)
-I visited a different preschool to “shadow” the art teacher. About twelve 4-year-olds were sitting
around a big table. Child 1 asked
me: “What are you doing here?”
Child 2: “I have red shoes!”
-Child 1: “Lauren, I need help! Will you do this for me?” Me: “No, you know how to glue. You can do it.” “Nooooo,
you do it.” “No. It’s your work.” “No, it’s your work.” (Nice
try.)
-Multiple children who always "need help" with their puzzles, but somehow manage to do it themselves when I'm sitting next to them asking "where does this one go?"
-Child tries to write his name and leaves out a few letters. I help him by naming the letter that comes next. He finishes and runs to the other professor going "LOOK I DID IT!!"
-Children get some sort of juice/milk hybrid with their snack. Several children don't want to drink it. Teacher tells them "It's only for superheroes. It helps them grow up to be strong." Most were not impressed but one child was like "OH!" and proceeded to drink all her juice.
-Children are given animal crackers for snack and proceed to play with them instead of eating them.
-Kids are playing with clay. I make a cat out of clay, and let one of the children play with it. Child tells me "The cat wants Pilfruit! (aka fruit juice)"
-Child lays facedown on my lap. I decide that's suspicious so I tell him to get up. He had his tongue out so now there's a big wet spot on the leg of my jeans.
-Child says he wants to tell me a secret and then "whispers" in my ear "I'M GOING TO MARRY YOU."
-Child proudly writes his name "ARAPO." His name is definitely not Arapo. (It doesn't have a P at all.)
-Children are given animal crackers for snack and proceed to play with them instead of eating them.
-Kids are playing with clay. I make a cat out of clay, and let one of the children play with it. Child tells me "The cat wants Pilfruit! (aka fruit juice)"
-Child lays facedown on my lap. I decide that's suspicious so I tell him to get up. He had his tongue out so now there's a big wet spot on the leg of my jeans.
-Child says he wants to tell me a secret and then "whispers" in my ear "I'M GOING TO MARRY YOU."
-Child proudly writes his name "ARAPO." His name is definitely not Arapo. (It doesn't have a P at all.)
