the kinder came
they masked
they played
they conquered.
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“this is the short and long of it.”
– william shakespeare
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first day of school – september 2020
spent time in my classroom
doing some pre-planning with my team
and saw how thorough
our summer cleaning crew had been.
i especially loved the note they left on the chairs:
they did not merely say
‘chairs cleaned’
but instead they kicked it up a notch to an ’11’
the ‘disinfected’ level
for the kinders’ chairs.
i can certainly appreciate that.
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“growth itself contains the germ of happiness.”
-pearl s. buck
children and the young at heart
are encouraged to roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty
in honor of International Mud Day.
a man is getting old when he walks around a puddle instead of through it. ~R.C. Ferguson
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image credits: letthechildrenplay.com, firefliesandmudpuppies,g2goutside.org