Out of Context

Definition of Enemy: "It's like...someone who tries to eat you."

Fashion From a Four Year Old

This all started on Monday when a four year old boy said, "Emily, I like your sweater." This would seem completely normal from an older child perhaps, but from a four year old it is pretty funny. Then today I said to this same boy, "Okay, put on your sweater..." In response he exclaimed, "This isn't a sweater! It's a toggle coat!" Apparently I have some things to learn about fashion if a four year old seems to know more than me. To be fair though, I think it may have been more like a sweatshirt than a sweater or toggle coat. It did have the toggle buttons though. Unfortunately I do not work with this boy as much because I am usually with the older kids, but I hope to gain more knowledge from him in the future.

In the meantime, I need to learn how to change the colors on my blog because at the moment it is quite difficult to read.

Dodgeball

While playing dodgeball with a group of elementary school students, a boy in kindergarten had some interesting things to say. For one, when I was strategizing with him and said to him, "Why don't we pick one person, and try to throw it at them at the same time!" He didn't seem to like this idea and responded, "Well, I'm trying to focus on all of them." Later he said he wanted to be a spy and go on the other team. I suggested that he go really close to the other team and try to listen and figure out what their strategies were. He did this, and then returned to me saying, "I think their strategy is the power throw." Seemed like a pretty good guess to me.