• Musings

    Making Space

    There are many things that every tired-eyed, graciously patient kindergarten teacher finds frustrating. Teaching freshly five-year-olds to sit quietly in their chairs, unwrapping a million granola bars and fruit gummies– the list could go on and on.  But one thing that never ceases to bring a kindergarten teacher to the brink of tearing out their hair is the chore of getting a class of twenty-something kindergarteners to form a line.  The problem* isn’t that they don’t know how to do it, or what their behavior should look like while in line (*note: this is actually very often a problem). The problem is that kindergarteners don’t know how to make space. …