Among the other events of Saturday, my school had its Christmas Concert! My kids did way better than I expected - when we practiced all they did was roll around on the floor and not pay any attention to me, but for the actual day they managed to pull it together and everybody sang and danced properly and nobody really cried. I was impressed!

関ジャニ∞ 8周年おめでとう ( Read more... )

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The weeks leading up to our summer break have been increasingly stressful, but at least my kids have been showing me that they actually are learning something. One of the many things I'm realizing as a Toddler teacher is that two-year-olds can produce an amazing amount of language. As a Nursery teacher I would struggle all year and be pretty ( Read more... )

Today I bought shoes ( Read more... )

The Nursery Teacher and I went shopping on our break together because we both needed to get out of the school for a bit, and now we have おそろい　plushie dinosaur keitai straps ( Read more... )

Today, I gave Okkun bunny ears.


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Friday afternoons I spend most of my daycare shifts in with the Kinders (age 4~6). We've developed a bit of a.... game thing during free play where the girls hand me different stuffed animals, I name them, and then all the kids come along and steal them away from me and I pretend to cry and get all upset because they're being mean to me ( Read more... )

So far 2012 is doing alright ( Read more... )

Woke up sickish and kept getting worse through the day, to the point where it's midnight and I can't handle being awake anymore ( Read more... )