I’m convinced that he’s seen Dylan Moran’s comedy special: “What are they really, children? Midget drunks!”IT’S LIKE HAVING A TINY DRUNK BEST FRIEND WITH YOU.
maybe I am all turned around on this child having business then
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This is my future daughter. No doubt. I recently went into a toy store with my little brother and within a few minutes, I had marched out of the store ranting about the very same things. “Why are all of the blocks in the boys’ section? Why do girls only have dolls! This is bullshit!” Righteous indignation, man. The sign of a fierce human.Precious Precocious Child of the Day: In the girls section at a Toys “R” Us, Riley suddenly has an epiphany: Segregating toys by gender is wrong.
At least one British toy store agrees.
[davidfuternick / ratsoff.]
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You are nice.
I got Siri to say “Doctor Who?”, everything is perfect!
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We’re starting an Ed Emberley study tomorrow in school. I’ve been cutting out shapes using metal insets that the kids will (hopefully) use to manipulate and create their favorite animals. I love that there’s a freaking Ed Emberley tag on Tumblr. So magical!Ed Emberley’s Picture Pie teaches “how to cut a basic circle into arcs and curves and use the pieces to draw birds, animals, snowmen, fish, and many other objects and designs.”
It’s always a bad idea to let me loose around books, because I always end up buying something. We’re having a book fair in our school and I was able to choose five awesome books for my classroom. While browsing, I found some must-haves for my personal collection as well…
• Luke on the Loose by Harry Bliss. Get ‘em into graphic novels as soon as possible.
• Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb. Abridged versions (10-15 pages each) of each of Shakespeare’s plays.
• Beautiful Oops by Barney Saltzberg. Magical book about how each “mistake” you make is actually a blessing in disguise. I always get so frustrated when children throw away their work because they did something they didn’t mean to. There’s so much that can be done with our “oops” moments.
The return of the giraffe! I already told my team that I shall now begin referring to him as, “Herman.” I was in a Munsters kind of mood.
In our school (my students are 3-5), everyone is a writer and reader. This is what we tell the children, most often when they say they can’t do something. If they can’t actually read the text, they can still read the pictures. If they can’t form their sounds (letters) correctly, they can write however they can and we often put down the translation somewhere on the page. With the younger ones, writing is equal to scribbles on the page, but when you encourage children to read and write in their own way, you’re empowering them and validating their hard work.
We asked some of our older students to label the parts of the giraffe. Here’s what they came up with…
1) GIRFAE=Giraffe (I suspect they wrote the second line backwards as they were sounding it out. They’re still learning how to write from left to write)
2) ERS=Ears
3) HAD=Head
4) NAC=Neck
5) BODE=Body
6) LEGS=Legs (SCORE!)
7) FIT=Feet
8) TAL=Tail
In conclusion: They are brilliant and I love them.
I spent an hour at the park with my students. We played games, ran races, and played in the leaves. The end of our time there involved me sitting on the ground, surrounded by kids who wanted to make a “Cristina dinner.” They ran around me, throwing leaves on my head and giggling like mad. Ah, life. I just really enjoy my job and I love the tiny humans I get to spend my weekdays with.
Does anyone have any recommendations for books about death? I know of a few for younger children (Lifetimes, Why Did Grandpa Die?), but I’m looking for books to send to an eleven year old. If there’s one specifically about a grandmother dying, that would be helpful. Thank you.
She dressed herself once again.
Fly like her mama!
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Kindergarten student does Doctor Who Pandorica speech for school talent show.
This. Is. Too. Cute!
