Sacred Forest Meadow

I hate the people I have to work with in Child Development, but I loooooooooove the children ^_^

After my little meltdown, and I composed myself, I went out to play with the kids, and they imediately ran up to play with me.

Now usually, when I go out with the kids during playtime, I hang out more than I play. I watch them playing together and talk with them about what they're doing, and laugh and listen to them.

Today, C and M leaped out and challenged me to a battle with the puppets they were playing with. C had a shark, M had a bee. The bee attacked me, and being right next to the puppet rack, I jumped on the case imediately; "Oh no! The bee is attacking me! I need backup!" and I grabbed a frog puppet, and the battle of stuffed things began!

C, M, Se and T were the biggest participants in the war. We had the shark and the frog, a goose, and two ants. The shark was the most vicious; it had velcro in its mouth :) Most of the battle is a blur, but I remember lots of laughs and a few times I attempted to suck out the boys' brains with the ant puppet (it had a glove for feet).

I think my favorite part was when C and M fell down dead, and the aid who was playing with them before I showed up saw them and said "Oh no! They're dead! Hmm...I wonder if dead boys are ticklish." C jumped up imediately, while M continued to play dead, and got tickled.

I wonder if I can get myself some pictures of these kids...I love them all to death <3

Best...teaching day...EVER!

I'm not sure how the other group went, but Jessica and Jaron and I sang the Penut Butter and Jelly song with appropriate dance accompanyment. It definitelly wins the award for the most fun activity we've ever taught.

Three kids didn't want to sing with us, though; R was allergic to penut butter (which people later made fun of, but I can see why; if she can't eat penut butter IRL, how could she see the fun in singing about it?), Ju just didn't want to do it, and C did actually join us once we started dancing.

But it was SOOOOOOOO much fun! Jessica and I were laughing so hard by the end of the class, and the kids were so fun to work with! M kept eating his sandwich before we even got to the jelly ^_^ he was definitelly the most into the activity.

Tomorrow: sewing cards and pom-pom grape clusters. Can it defeat our champion, Penut Butter and Jelly song?

Probably not ^^

(god I love this class!)

I've been busy cleaning my room. I'm finding more of that weird tannish fuzzy stuff.

Anyway, I wanted to talk about this earlier, but I didn't get around to it.

Monday was the kids' first day of school. They are total sweethearts!!! S (whom I think is younger than the others) is having trouble getting used to this whole away from mommy and daddy concept, but she's getting better about it. She cried all through the free play time on Monday, then calmed down when class started, but on Tuesday she only cried for a few minutes, after the teachers offered some toys.

Anyway, what I wanted to talk about was Tuesday morning. My group's first two days are observing, so our first job of the day is to greet the parents outside and pick up the kids. I love that job because it's another chance to talk to them. On Monday, I only needed to pick up An (the rest of the group took care of the others while I was helping him find his cubby), and he didn't really talk to me much. Also, while we don't *have* to hold their hand while we escort them inside, it's generally a good idea and a nice thing to do. He didn't really want to hold my hand either.

But on Tuesday, I took two kids inside. I picked up T, who *LOVED* talking to me. She bragged about how Monday was her first day, and how she "made breakfast for everybody" and stuff. That was really cool. I have trouble talking to the kids past "Hi, what's your name? I'm Miss Margaret.", so she gave us something to talk about and was really sweet.

But I must say, my favorite part of that whole day was, after taking T (who didn't hold my hand) inside, I picked up Ju, and after he toddled behind us a bit, he walked up to me, arm outstretched, obviously to hold my hand. God, it was so adorable! I almost melted!

Hehe, I'm getting all sniffly talking about it...it was so sweet!

I can't wait until Monday when our group teaches for the first time. We were going to teach today, but the alumni conveniently FORGOT to tell Ms. Mangene that today was the PSAT, so nobody was there for the class, plus there's no school tomorrow for Yon Kipper, and we don't have the kids on Friday. So we just have to skip our science lesson and go with the Monday lesson; large motor skills. We're going to play duck-duck-goose, and do a game of barnyard animal impressions (our school theme for this month is the farm). And I'm head teacher that day, too! Should be fun ^_^

Yes, I'm having way too much fun with this class.

GOD, I still can't get over Ju....*melts*