Desperately thirsty or desperately daring?

Date: 9/23/2010

Age/Gender:  4 year old "busy" boy---EXTREMELY like/lovable character---despite his extreme "busy-ness"---he also happens to be a particularly famous little soul in our school (ALL know him by name *grins*)

Location: Purple Room/Four-Year-Old Class

Alias: "D"

 . . . entire class was in using the restroom today (part of the daily routine) . . . this particular restroom has low-placed urinals in it for the little boys . . . teacher is trying to round-up all of the students and make sure hands are getting washed . . . turns around to find "D" with his chin in the urinal groove . . . tongue just lapping away (and yes, he knows the urinal's intended function)!!!!

Ewwwwwww . . . . . LOL . . . . . and "nuff said."

"The Thinker"

Date:  9/3/2010 (two days into the new school year)

Age/Gender: Just turned four-your-old little girl

Locale:  Yellow Room

Alias:  J

Our preschool is implementing the "High Scope" curriculum.  A great portion of this curriculum is known as the "plan-do-review" process.  The kids make a "plan" for "work time"  (better known to most as "free" time), they complete their work, and then after "clean-up time" they go to a specified location to "review" and discuss what they did during "work-time" that day. 

Little Miss J was in our program last year, so being two-whole-days into school, she easily picked back up on the routine and knew what was expected of her throughout each portion of our day.  Seated at the table next to her during "review time," was little guy H, who was brand-new to our program and classroom.  Miss M proceeded around the table, asking each child what he/she had accomplished and worked on that day.  When it was Little Miss J's turn, Miss M asked, "J, where did you work today?"  

With a few fingers on her chin, our little J rolled her eyes up just a bit, exaggeratedly looked at the ceiling, then to the the right wall, flipper her head and hair toward the left, looked back up . . . . . all the while was saying, "Hmmmmmmm, hmmmmmmmm, hmmmmmmmm, hmmmmmmmm."   The expression on her face seemed to indicate that she was experiencing a deep-recall-thought-process moment (a LONG one).  As the other little people around the table get pretty antsy while waiting, Miss M had to speed things up a bit and helped Miss J come up with an answer.  "J, I saw you playing in the big toy area today with the castle."  Little J got a giddy look on her face, agreed with Miss M's observations, and her turn quickly ended; J apparently felt no need to elaborate.

Miss M proceeded to the next little guy at her table and asked, "So, H, what did you do during work-time today?"  Only a few seconds had passed, but J couldn't stand the silence even one second longer.  She leaned over to H, tapped him on the shoulder to gain his full attention, and then demonstrated how he should respond:  "YOU DO IT LIKE THIS . . . 'hmmmmmmmmm . . . hmmmmmmm . . . hmmmmmmmm' (as she simultaneously glued on a repeat performance of that deep thought-process expression and flipped her eye gaze all around the room)." 

Yeah  . . . . . thinking little J pretty much has our number . . . . . however . . . . . we are now on to her.  *LOL*