You think you've had a bad day?

At lunch today one of my preschoolers started to choke. He threw up his food in the process. On the plus side, I did not have to implement the Heimlich maneuver -he took care of the problem throwing up his food.

At snack another child was full out crying: his banana peel had the sticker on it.

After nap time, while still not fully awake one of my preschoolers started walking toward the bathroom but before he ever made it there, he dropped his pants and took aim in the middle of the classroom. He was barely caught before he peed on the carpet. He very sleepily told me he "needed to go potty."

At group time, when the kids sat down, before I had time to arrange them in a circle one kid just started crying because "he couldn't see." There was a girl in front of him.

When I turned on Disney music this afternoon a couple of the kids got upset because I wouldn't let them stare at the ipad screen which had the album covers of the songs playing on Pandora.

Passing on the snore

My favorite kid quotes almost always come from serious conversations and/or sincere requests. Today's quote was said in the most serious of situations.
It was nap time. One of my preschool students asked me if he could get a tissue. I could tell he was stuffed up so I let him get one. On his way to the tissue box he stopped and very sincerely told me: My dad always snores and then that snore comes to me. And then I snore." In other words: "I have a cold and I'm probably going to snore during nap time today. But if anyone asks, I get it from my dad." That's how I interpreted it anyway. Listen kid, my dad snores but so far that snore has not come to me.


And another of my favorite quotes: "I need more chapstick on my lips. Mine fell off." These little people are chapstick fiends.

the life of the pint size folks

Today one of my preschoolers was putting his shoes on and after he put the first one on I informed him that it was on the wrong foot. He grabbed that shoe and started to take it off, then stopped and told me: "I'm going to leave it on the wrong foot. I like it that way. It's tighter on my feet."


One of the other preschool teachers in my room was discussing rhyming words with the kids. She gave them some examples and then asked them to try. Teacher: "What rhymes with flat?" Preschooler: "Victor Vito!" [note: we do sing a song about Victor Vito, but I'm not sure why his name was thrown out at that time.]


And here's just a few of things I heard this week:
"My muscles are strong like my dad's."

"This is the Great Wall of China. This is where the monsters are [pointing at the wall]."

"Where did you get those glasses?"
"At a place where you buy glasses." 
"Like a 'make glasses store?'"

"I had a good day. I was good at lunch. I was good at nap. And every other time."

Snapshots into the life of a preschool teacher

"I'm a cowboy. Will you be my cowgirl?"


Ready to leave the table after lunch: "May I be miscused?"


"That's an E. Hey, my name starts with an E the backwards way." In other words, his name ends in E.


Found out one kid punched another. Pulled him aside and asked him what happened: "Did you hit her?" "Well, she said I wasn't spiderman!"


Kid calls to me from the bathroom: "the water won't go." I look in the toilet only to discover approximately half a roll of toilet paper in there. Me: "that's A LOT of toilet paper." Kid:"I had A LOT of poop."

He was selfish... or so fast.

Yesterday at lunch, one of my preschoolers (child 1) took a very large portion of oranges (our lunches are family style serving and for the most part our kids serve themselves). He easily took 1/4 of what was there and we had 7 kids left to take from the supply. I couldn't make him put them back but I talked to him about how that wasn't fair to the rest of the kids. Well, lunch went on and before I knew it, without asking, "child 1" had taken a second serving of oranges-this time cleaning the bowl. "Child 2" asked for seconds on the oranges and I when I went to pass him the bowl I saw it was empty. Before I said anything "child 1" proudly admitted to cleaning the bowl. I looked at him and said, "because you took all the oranges, nobody else can eat any more. You were selfish to take that many." Child 2: "Yeah, yeah. He was so fast. And now there's none for any of us. "

Overheard in the preschool classroom...

"I don't think my boots work on the stairs."

"My front teeth are long and sharp. Long like a snake."

Child: "I think my mom needs to get a new Christmas tree. Last year ours fired up."
Me: "yikes! Did anything else in your house catch fire?"
Child: "Nope. The tree just fired up one night. Nothing else. I slept right through it."

Sweetheart

One of the boys in my class has a little sister that he calls "KK." The other day one of the assistant teachers in my room asked him what his sister's real name was. He thought for a minute and then very seriously stated: "KK's real name is 'sweetheart.'''