I first decided that I wanted to be a teacher when I was in kindergarten in Mrs. Allen’s class, and I never changed my mind.
She was truly inspiring. She used to give us a shiny penny when she caught us doing a very good job in class. At the end of the day we could put the penny in the buble gum machine! She made learning exciting every day.
“Everything I need to know I learned in kindergarten.” That’s what they say. For me, it’s pretty true. My kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Miller, looked like Alice in Wonderland to me and was loving and joyful in every circumstance.
I remember the ”print shop” center where we could make signs and notes with letter stamps. She most impacted me, though, when I tried to steal the homemade play dough from the kitchen center. She gave me a chance to confess, but I didn’t take it. When she asked me why I had a ball of play dough sticking out of the pocket of my dress, I told her it was just so warm and squishy I wanted to keep it with me. All my play dough at home was hard and dry. She talked with my mom about it. What stays with me, though, is that she wasn’t angry, she used it as a teaching time. Instead of discipline, she gave me the recipe. We still make Mrs. Miller’s play dough.
Mrs. Desmond was my kindergarten teacher! I did not want to go to school. She welcomed me every morning with her smile and told me every thing would be alright. She was always kind and caring. She did everything to make me like school.
For 18 years, I have worked with one of the most wonderful kindergarten teachers ever! Her name is Darla Bramlette. We have both learned so much from each other and from all the kindergarten children that come through our doors. She is so dedicated to all of her children, even children from years past! It is truly amazing to see the impact she has on these children from the beginning of the year until the end. She tends to these little seeds all year long. Tending to those seeds that may need a little more help so they can all spring into wonderful and colorful children for the future.
My husband is a kindergarten teacher. He stands a little over 6’5″, so naturally the children can be intimidated by his height when they first meet. However, come back in a day or so and you will see that those apprehensive little faces have morphed into giggling and confident little learners. He has always been an out-of-the-box thinker and because he is willing to sometimes fly upside down, the students benefit immensely. While I am his wife and could constantly remark just how amazing he is as a teacher, the proof in the confidence and knowledge he gives his students.
I started playing school when my sister Sara was a toddler and I was in first grade at Stella Maris Academy. My first encounters with instruction had not been school-like at all – they were all play. La Jolla Country Day’s nursery class met in a shingled Irving Gill cottage where my favorite past time was standing at the picture window which overlooked the Pacific Ocean’s blue expanse of water and sky.
At La Jolla Elementary School’s kindergarten, my favorite activity was playing with blocks, especially on Fridays when we could spend the entire morning designing whatever we wanted. I built airports that took up half the classroom and Miss Keys indulged me as this required more blocks and floor space than other students’ towers and houses. Miss Keys never made me play with dolls in the kitchen corner. In fact, I never went into the kitchen center all year. We were supposed to rotate centers, but I pleaded to skip my turn so I could continue painting at the easel or shelving empty cereal boxes in the grocery corner. At school I wanted a break from the demands of crying, gurgling babies. Miss Keys let me be.
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