November 20, 2004
Funny stuff!!!
I have literally been on the road for months! a day or 2 at home before heading out again and I apologize for not having updated this section in awhile! I kept jotting things down on napkins and pieces of scrap paper saying - THIS needs to get on the site, so hopefully while on my winter break, I'll be able to make a few more installments and bring you up to speed!
Of course I want to start with a few of the hilarious stories that a few folks have shared with me this fall on the road. Some of the new ones prompted me to rememebr some of the old ones and I'm just barfing them all here for you! A few laughs to ease up the holiday stress to you from me (and hundreds of sources across the country!)
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A young preschool aged girl was announcing (to the air) while doing an art project that she was "Half Indian." Just kept kinds of announcing it - waiting, I think, to see who she could get a response from. "I'm half Indian." color, color scribble scribble. "I'm half Indian." color color paint scribble.
Finally, whether out of desire for her to be quiet or honest curiousity one of her classmates said, without lifting his eyes from his drawing, "Which half?"
This stopped her dead in her tracks. Marker went down, coloring ceased. No reply.
Teacher asked her a few days later if she had ever discovered which half of her was the Indian half, to which she replied, "Well I went home and thought about it. And I cannot sing like the Indians but I can dance like them, so it must be the bottom half."
I think it must.
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A lady was giving a preshool class (in San Diego mind you)a long dramatic monologue about a BLIZZARD. Going on and on, very intense about the wind, snow, blustering cold... The children were entranced by her story. Eyes wide, listening, taking it all in. When she was done painting this picture of a BLIZZARD one of the children stood up and said, "Yeah, and some are small, brown and run fast too."
Ah yes, I think he was trying to tell her about the wild species of blizzard LIZARDS that roam free here in (sunny) san diego!
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We were doing the life size art activity where you trace the kids' bodies on butcher paper and then they paint their hair, clothes, ect. Anyway - the older kids were painting their hair and their jeans and shirts and then we called out to the younger preschoolers to paint their hair too. And they did. Literally.
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Talking about the seasons can be kind of tricky for young chidlren unless you actually have them where you live. Without getting off on too much of a soapbox (most of you know where I stand on this subject anyway!) if you don't get SNOW and can't take them to any SNOW you need to find something else to be talking about with your kids - OK enough said...
So a friend of mine who lives where it does not snow was instructed to begin talking about the seasons with her charges. So she asked the kids if they knew about the seasons to which one of the children answered OH YEAH! I know all about them, there's trout season and deer season and crab season and lobster season.....
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I'll have more next time...
for now,
all my best
lisa
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