On
Wednesdays, there were stations in the room, kids moved from work
area to work area and did the tasks involved in each. I can't
remember what station I was monitoring, but the room contained two
entire kindergarten classes, and they were combined for this portion
of the day.
After
that, it was time for me to read.
I
sat down in a low chair in front of the children and showed them book
I had for them that day – Owl Moon. As I opened the book and
began the story, I suddenly remembered that I was going to have to
hoot during the course of the reading. A slight panic came
over me and I looked at my audience. There were two classes of
kindergarten kids sitting with their eyes upon me – there were the
two teachers, their two para-pro assistants, a few more mothers who
were helping out that morning, and two men, one at the bottom of a
ladder and one at the top of the ladder replacing a fluorescent light
– I had not even noticed the men until that moment. I was going to
have to hoot in front of all these folks! Well it was too late
to not read the book, I would have to just move forward. Whatever
the hoot sounded like – that would just have to do.
The
story went well – Owl Moon is so beautiful. When I finished, the kids lined up to go outside, and then they left. I
packed up my bag and headed for the door to the hallway. One of
the men from the ladder said, “Excuse me Ma'am? That was a fine
reading of Owl Moon just now – my boy and I read it all the
time, it is our favorite book!”
“Oh
thank you, did I hoot okay?”
“Ma'am,
you hoot with the best of them!”
Well,
of course, that made my day, my week.
How much our family was
enriched because owls made their way into it and helped us all to hoot
with the best of them!
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