Back in the classroom...

...at least for a couple hours! Yesterday morning, I went in to substitute for one of our regular preschool storytime volunteers. I had a chance to read with my co-worker Abby in 3 preschool classrooms--3 year olds, 4 year olds, and 5 year olds. It was so much fun to be hanging out with kids again in a classroom context, and it definitely made me miss teaching. I had forgotten though from my student teaching days in kindergarten how much energy it required to entertain small children for even a short period of time! Whew!

As we look at new project assignments at work, I am looking forward to hopefully working more closely with teachers and preschoolers as a literacy consultant/trainer--teaching again, but in a slightly different context than a traditional classroom teacher. I will tell you one thing I certainly won't miss...the mountains of paperwork and grading!

Here are some fun photos from my day in preschool...

We are reading a funny story called Gladys Goes Out to Lunch, about a gorilla that is looking for something delicious to eat other than bananas...the solution? Banana Bread!

The second story we read was The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Afterwards we reenacted the metamorphosis of a caterpillar to a butterfly. Here we are being butterflies!