New York: Day 13 - Visiting Sara's Classroom

Sara kindly invited Marc and I to see where she worked.  As mentioned in a previous post, Sara teaches pre-kindergarteners (as in 3 year olds) and she thought it would be amusing to bring in some people with funny accents to confuse the small people.

Now most of you will be aware that I am not the biggest fan of the small ones.  They are often loud, smell funny and covered in a thin layer (sometimes thick) of sticky.  They are unpredictable (like moths) and erratic (like moths).   But these ones were tolerable.  I could even go as far as calling them cute.

Getting them settled for reading time.

Sara having to show Marc how to use the safety scissors

Sara making sure Marc isn't corrupting the little ones.

 We entered the class and Sara introduced us to her 12 students.  We were welcomed by those who could pull themselves away from whatever activity they were currently engrossed in.  One young lad was happily playing in the dress up box and was perhaps the prettiest fairy princess I had ever seen.

One of the girls hugged me.  It was awkward.

We then had reading time where Marc and I showed them pictures of koalas from one of the two koala books Sara has.

After we read it was lunch time where the kids were given a healthy lunch of chicken, beans, brown rice, milk or water and berries and cherries for dessert.  I was a little disappointed that they weren't being fed processed chicken nuggets, pizza slices and chips (I feel like Jamie Oliver has either been lying to us or done an amazing job).

After lunch some of the kids got to go home and some of the others had free play time before their nap.  Marc was a hit with the kids and showed some of the boys how to make masks.  I sat there awkwardly.

Marc in his element, passing on his wisdom.

"Please don't touch me, I know you have cooties."

Nap time soon approached and we said our goodbyes before heading out to big peoples lunch.

Thank you Sara for inviting us along!  It was a lot of fun and I'm glad to know if I ever have to force a small person out of me that there is somewhere I can send them!