I thought to myself  "I don't have anything special to write about this week". But the truth is, I have been finding everything special in our class. Each and every moment, there is a child doing something interesting.

What is interesting?

• Building with Keva planks
• Washing paint off hands and arms
• Changing from boots to shoes
• Pretending to sell fruits and vegetables
• Arguing over the cash register
• Reading a book alone on a couch
• Tearing masking tape off its roll
• Drawing raccoons
• Opening a snack container
• Eating noodles without spilling them all over the floor
• Creating a shopping list for making sushi tomorrow
• Running, jumping, leaping, falling on the turf
• Playing football ( yes, football complete with proper ball and teams!)
• Going to the bathroom so independently
• Taking turns, sometimes with ease, sometimes with great difficulty
• Listening in group discussion time
• Sharing their thoughts in group discussion time
• Negotiating who sits where and with whom at lunch time
• Organizing their bags, coats and other stuff in their cubbies

and listening to their conversations like this one-

Jack: You cannot marry someone you met a long time ago.
Kahlen: You can't marry someone in your family.
Miele: I want to marry my baby brother. She (pointing at Emma) is not going to marry Jack.
Kahlen: She wants to marry Jack but he doesn't want to marry her.
Jack: You just can't marry someone you knew for a long time (does he repeat this out of necessity?)
Emma: (looking at me) That's not even true, right?
Kahlen: When we marry, can you wear whatever you want? The flower girl has to match the bridesmaid dress.
Jack: Last wedding when mom and dad married, my mom threw the flowers.
Kahlen: I'm going to be a flower girl for my auntie's wedding.









The joy of teaching.

Emily