I'm sorry this one's a little late.  It's been a busy week with parent conferences and interrogating a potential new assistant.  Here are two stories to make up for it: Um...yeah Oh, parent-teacher conferences. They reveal so much!  I asked one parent what she does with her child at home and we talked about using TV as a reward instead of a main activity.  Then I mentioned how great the child is doing with starting to pick up...

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Twofer Tuesday

I missed updating yesterday, so you get two stories today! It's Monday Yesterday, a Monday, one of my assistants was out and another had put in her notice so already it was rocky.  Everything went all right until naptime, when one of  the children decided they would rather have fun with the substitute than stay quiet.  Of course, if you're a teacher, you know how quickly one can turn into many so it wasn't long before I was moving...

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Mini Quotes

Here are a few quotes from the children: "I'm a turtle! Here's my shell!" (Starts rolling on his back) "Ah-mee! I poopied!" (from a child with autism, using the bathroom with another teacher for the first time) "I'm writing a bad note home because his behavior is bad."  (We give out good notes home, not bad ones, so I thought this was especially funny. He then followed through and told the parent!) "My shoe! My shoe!" (after throwing it over...

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It Must be Spring

Here in NC, our Springs run the gamut from freezing to feeling like Summer, usually on the same day.  Today the forecast was 80 degrees; the morning was cool but warm enough to go outside, so we started the day on the playground.  It wasn't long before a parent drove up.  A boy got out of the car wrapped head to toe in his blanket, with his mother following behind him carrying the tail like a bride's train.  As they went inside,...

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It's That Time Again... We've had several children out this week and last week due to being sick.  What's worse is when children come anyway.  Today, during naptime, we had a couple of children just coughing miserably for an hour straight.  Meanwhile, because nothing ever goes the way you want it to, another child decided to stay awake and try to play with everything around him.  Soon he asked to go to the bathroom and I took...

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Salutations, salutations, salutations!

Welcome to a celebration of the little things!  A celebration, that is, of our little ones and the little things they do and say throughout the day that make every day worth it.  It's easy to get weighed down by the negative and focus on what still needs to be done and what didn't happen.  Treat this blog as a deep breath, a calm pause and pick-me-up during the day.   A few times a week, this space will hold something that...

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