On Fridays at my school, the kindergartners do not have lessons. Instead, we do fun things with them, like crafts, "science" experiments, cooking, and field trips. Today we took them to a small playground, where we had "Science Class with Stephanie."
Cate rigged me up with a microphone so that the kids (and random passers-by) could hear me better outside. Today's "science" lesson was about magnifying glasses (this whole thing was Cate's idea, by the way). I taught the kids a few words, then showed them how to burn holes in black paper using only a magnifying glass. They struggled a bit at first, but pretty soon my eleven kindergartners became accomplished firebugs.
Later, we let them play. While they were throwing a few plastic balls, they got one stuck high up in a tree. Then it became "Game Time for Teachers!" Cate, Angel, and I spent the next fifteen minutes throwing balls, rocks, and sticks at the ball, trying to dislodge it. It was a divirting game, to say the least. Finally, the wind knocked the ball down!
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