This observation comes secondhand from my sister and it’s definitely worth sharing.
So my niece just started up at school, joining a morning kindergarten class and partially graduating from the Jewish pre-K program she had been attending for the past year or two. (She still goes a couple days a week in the afternoon). And my sister, being a teacher too, with the added dosage motherly interest, has been asking her how her first days have been.
I’m imagining the conversation went something like this:
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“So tell me how school was today?,” my sister asks.
“Fine!,” her daughter happily replies.
“What did you do today?,” my sister continues, having asked her this question a few days in a row, hoping, as she tells me, to ‘ply’ some more of these early school experiences from her daughter.
“We played. Then we sat. That’s what we do every day, mom,” A. replies brightly.
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How’s that for you, my sister and I agreed… a condensed measure of what school is. Not so bad.
News from a Kindergarten Class in Pennsylvania
This observation comes secondhand from my sister and it’s definitely worth sharing.
So my niece just started up at school, joining a morning kindergarten class and partially graduating from the Jewish pre-K program she had been attending for the past year or two. (She still goes a couple days a week in the afternoon). And my sister, being a teacher too, with the added dosage motherly interest, has been asking her how her first days have been.
I’m imagining the conversation went something like this:
—–
“So tell me how school was today?,” my sister asks.
“Fine!,” her daughter happily replies.
“What did you do today?,” my sister continues, having asked her this question a few days in a row, hoping, as she tells me, to ‘ply’ some more of these early school experiences from her daughter.
“We played. Then we sat. That’s what we do every day, mom,” A. replies brightly.
—–
How’s that for you, my sister and I agreed… a condensed measure of what school is. Not so bad.