Cerebellumed!

It's official, I am once again suckered into loving children that aren't mine, and are actually kind of annoying... What is it about kindergarteners who don't know how to be quiet, haven't figured out how a lunch line works, or can't even remember their full names that just gets me in my emotions heart? This year we have 28 kids, one of which is probably special ed and still wears a diaper, and after spending 4 hours with them instead of being brought almost to insanity (which any sane person would be so maybe it's already happened) I'm actually elated. My guess is that either I've found my calling in life or I've gotten to the point where my body is trained not to feel exhaustion. Suffice it to say, I love kindergarten, although I'm not in an ESL class anymore and I kinda miss the diversity. Still, life is good when I get to hang out with crazy kids all morning!

You know, I never really understood the poster that said, "All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten" until I started this job. Being at school for the first time really sets you up for life. You have to be trained on so many things, like how to stand in line, how to treat other people in large settings, respect, and a myriad of other social cues that I could probably name for days. The amount of societal structure learned in the first few months of kindergarten is pretty insane. I just got a little nervous...

If you send your kid to my classroom and they come back thinking singing out loud is just what you do when there's nothing else going on I'm probably going to deny I had any involvement, but feel free to blame me anyway (I really can't help it).