Where has the night gone?
I’ll tell you where the night has gone! It’s gone to cutting out strips of construction paper and gluing them back together. UGH!
I am teaching preschool tomorrow, thus I’ve been cutting out zebras, printing out elephants, hunting down black paint, and cooking lasagna. I think I make things way too complicated.
Last week the teacher had colored a piece of paper, then made color copies. Smart! I tried to do the same thing, but my color copier is a POS and my plan tanked. I had to think on my feet, thus the construction strips (I’m giving the kids a pile of animal stickers and having them stick each sticker on the appropriate color strip).
I thought I was going to have a couple of hours to make a fabulous Harry Potter paper pieced block (check out Sew Hooked for patterns), but noooooooo. . . the night is gone thanks to those silly paper strips.
My cold is doing much better, but I have almost no voice. I’ll be taking tea bags to class with me tomorrow, that’s for sure. I haven’t taken any medicine today and I survived. Thumbs up for survival! I even took Erik outside for a while before the rain came pouring sprinkling down. He needs more outdoor time and less TV time.
Last night I saw an ad on TV that said “Readers are made in their parent’s laps” or something similar. It made me feel so guilty! I want him to be a reader! We have books galore! I want to read to him! Stories are wonderful! He’ll let Mike read to him on rare occasions, but the second I try to read to him he grabs the book away and tells me “NO!” As soon as I try to tell him a bed time story, he tells me to be quiet. How can this be my child?
The closest I ever get to telling him a story is when the computer picture slideshow comes on and we talk about all the pictures that go by. I wonder if they have picture e-books? I wonder if he would let me tell him stories if the computer was the “book?” I need to figure something out so the guilt doesn’t kill me.
As a trial run of the computer idea, I did something VERY BAD. You know how you can find all sorts of toddler and preschool games online if you go looking? Yeah. I’ve never gone looking because I don’t want my toddler to take over my computer. Today, though, I found a simple game where the child hits a letter key and Elmo says the letter. He LOVED it. I fear I have created a monster. I just couldn’t stand looking at him watch TV for another minute and I didn’t have the energy to do much else. He is perfectly capable of entertaining himself in other ways (he spent an hour playing with a bucket and piece of string today), but he really likes having the TV on and I really can’t stand the fights it causes. Maybe we need to become a TV free household?
Gotta go! Time for Lost!
Heh.
No really.
May 2nd, 2008 at 6:38 pm
So your a preschool teacher – wasn’t aware of that – sorry. I’m sure your great as you really are patient with children. My American wife worked there when she came to Norway almost 10 years ago. I great way to get to know the culture, tradition and habits in a country.
Wishing you a great end to your week :-)
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May 2nd, 2008 at 11:51 pm
Baby Nora loves to look at the computer. I’ll google “horses” or “bunnies” or something and we’ll find a gallery and watch it and talk about it. I figure it’s like reading books, which she does love to do.
I read someone just told their kid the TV was broken and the kid forgot all about TV within days and started behaving much better. For what it’s worth.