Today was supposed to be Isabel’s special helper day but earlier in the month, Mrs. W pulled me aside and asked if we could postpone her day because one of the other students hadn’t had a special helper day and was going to be gone the majority of December. I said that was more then fine! So her special helper day will be on Wednesday, December 1st.
Today, Isabel said, she didn’t have a good day…
One of the other girls asked for something that Isabel had picked up off the floor and when Isabel handed it to her, the girl made a “mean face” at Isabel. Later when the same girl bumped into Isabel by accident she said excuse me. I told Isabel, that she didn’t have to be upset by the “mean face”, and that even though someone is “mean” to you, you should not be “mean” to them or make “mean faces”. I said that maybe, the other girl wasn’t having a good day today, and the she still needs to be nice. We need to be thankful for our friends, even when they are mean and make “mean faces” at us.
However, sometime, during free play a few of the boys wanted to play with something Isabel was playing with and were asking her “not very nicely”, she said, to have it. I think all the kids were in a bit of a grumpy moody today, after being out of school all last week due to the snow and Thanksgiving. Hopefully by Wednesday things will be back to normal and everyone can get along.
The special helper today was Dany. He brought a black, white, and orange penguin and a brown puppy for show and tell. The puppy had a bone, a bottle, and a carriage. For snack they had a strawberry, grapes, a cookie, and juice.