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Friday, October 16, 2009

Kindergarten Curriculum Night

Last night was my older son's (OS) kindergarten curriculum night. At last we were going to find out what he does all day! Apparently he most have taken an oath to never reveal the daily happenings of his classroom because it's rare for him to divulge anything about his day.

The Big Giraffe and I went into his classroom and met his teachers. We saw all the artwork that the kids had done. We saw the books the kids read and the games they played. We saw the reading corner, the writing station and the pretend play station. We then listened to his head teacher explain what they do during a typical day.

As she finished speaking I came to an important realization: there is another student with OS's exact name. I know! We were in that other OS's classroom. Surely that is the only logical explanation because neither the Big Giraffe nor I had heard about 99% of the classroom or the typical day from OS.*

A. Elliot's Lesson Learned: Going to curriculum night can make you realize that your child really does have a separate life from you!

*Another mom over heard me remark on this to the Big Giraffe and said she too felt the same way about her son.

Labels: Humor (at least Attempted)

posted by Alex Elliot @ 11:53 AM 3 comments

3 Comments:

At 10/18/2009 12:56 AM, Team Russi said…

We often joke that "what happens in kindergarten stays in kindergarten". I'm sure if they told us they'd have to kill us. It's top secret.

I am getting better at piecing together random comments to figure out what happened at school. Sometimes it's really tough to let them find their own path.
At 10/18/2009 8:55 AM, abrowncow said…

i've been saying the same thing for the past 5 years... in preschool they'd tell me about this little boy who helped and didn't need to be told things twice, then they'd put my son in the car.

he's in 2nd grade now and they're still doing the switch.
At 10/21/2009 12:04 PM, Goofball said…

funny

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