Got to spend the day with Cassidy at Kindergarten as part of her “Star of the week”. It was the best ever. We did crafts and words and the 5 senses and show-and-tell and all sorts of stuff.
One thing I learned: the kids are 100 times smarter than I expected. They are doing stuff I didn’t do until grade 3 I’m sure. They actually understand how molecules line up in iron to create magnetism! Crazy. But they’re still kids, and we had a blast goofing off. I can relate to kindergarten age.
At lunch we had Macaroni & Cheese and I pretended my noodles were sailors and piled them on my bun, which was a ship, and then I was a giant shark and I bit half off and ate it real noisy and messy like a shark, and then the rest of the sailors were diving off and screaming. The kids at my table really dug that, and pretty soon lunch was getting outta control so we had to settle down. Then I did some magic tricks and that got a good laugh.
Recess was super-fun, we played hide-and-seek, dug for dinosaurs, fought with the “big kids” for the playground.
Recess at a K to 9 school is like a history-of-Europe-from-1910-to-1946 condensed into 15 minutes! From the moment they get out the door, there are little alliances, skirmishes, wars, truces, new alliances, spying, land claims, betrayals, and deals going on everywhere.
Just one little episode I witnessed (before I had to help a kid who peed her pants): First the grade 2’s and 1’s took control of the tower and slides. Then the kindergarten boys, plus Cassidy, stomped up there to demand access. Then the 2’s got greedy and kicked out the 1’s too, who shifted allegiance to the K’s. That worked for a while until the K’s noticed somebody digging in “their” dinosaur pit, and the battle shifted to the eastern front.
I was gassing out, and they took it so seriously. I won’t forget little Ethan trying to explain to me:
“You don’t get it! They TOOK the top slide. It’s THIERS. We can’t get it back” He explained.
“Why not?” I asked. Then Cassidy and another kid piped in: “Because! Just because! They took it, it’s THIERS now. That’s it. Nothing we can do.”
Then the K-boys stormed the slide from the bottom and the war was on…
Mulatto says : I absolutely agree with this !