Confessions of a Preschool Teacher

I was excited for today. This week we are talking about dinosaurs and that is always such a fun topic for preschool. The students started the day by making their own dinosaur sculptures out of clay. They had a ton of fun, and I love how creative they can get! After they were done with their sculptures they could either get scrap paper to draw or do puzzles. Seems harmless, right? Well one of my wonderful (note the sarcasm) decided to dump ALL of the puzzles and proceed to have the rest of the class shove the pieces into the shelf....Oh man, not a good thing to do around me. If there is one thing I cannot stand it is blaitant disrespect for others and belongings. For whatever reason my class decided today was the day to disrespect the toys. So you know what I did? I dumped all of the puzzles (ALL) onto the floor and had them all clean it up instead of learning about dinosaurs. And I am not ashamed to say that it felt good to make them clean it all up. It took them 20 minutes to work together and clean up the mess. I think they learned their lesson...and I am proud to say that sometimes I act like a four year old too!