Day School!

Today is the first day of day school for little ones here at Old Hickory. This has been quite a different office experience for me. I'm used to almost complete silence. Now I'm hearing lots of new sounds. Periodically, you can hear a little one whining/crying for something. There are also little bits of "Katie! Stay in line! Brandon! This way!" (Pitter patter of little feet) mixed in here and there.

But most interesting has been the group activities. A few minutes ago I would hear something like this:

• Children sound disorderly
• Teacher says something
• Children are silent
• Teacher says something else
• Children begin stomping their feet rapidly, causing the building to shake.
• Teacher says something else.
• Children stop rumbling.
• Teacher says something.
• More feet rumbling
• (Repeat for about 5 minutes)

I really enjoy getting to see the kids here. They all have their little bags and backpacks, and you can see what a big deal this is for the moms. It brings me back memories about kindergarten. I remember all the flavored drinks in the gallon jugs that are neither fruit juice nor Kool-Aid. I remember eating lots of goldfish crackers. I remember coloring. I remember learning to read sounds with that Mr. Hat guy. I remember hating nap time. I remember one time when a kid got mad and called our teacher "stupid", and I was sure she was going to execute him for saying such an awful word (it was the worst one I knew at the time!).

What do you guys remember from your preschool/kindergarten days?

If there was anything you could bring back from your pre-school days, what would it be?