So I finally started my new job! I'm a substitute teacher at a local school for pre-school through kindergarten age kidlets. I've decided to go in a new direction career wise and am interested in being a teacher. I figure that being a substitute is a good way to test the waters and decide if I want to pursue it further and make a career out of it. So far so good. Each day I learn something new about how to communicate life's lessons to them in a way that they understand. I'm also finding it's a fun challenge and I'm eager to keep doing it. I've been working the past few days with kidlets in the 4-5 years old range and have found they're all pretty good eggs. I've also found I'm not nearly as tired as I thought I would be after spending several hours with a room full of toddlers.
Yesterday as nap time was winding down, the kids that woke up before nap time ended were allowed to draw quietly while the rest of their classmates finish their nap. I didn't want to disturb the ones that were sleeping and there were only a few that were awake, so I decided I would join them at the drawing table. I put pencil and crayon to paper and rocked out a pretty decent freehand of the Cat in the Hat. I brought it home because I'm kind of proud of my little pic but we don't have a need for it around here. We do have a 6 year old niece though....hhhhmmmm. I decided to write up a little story about running into this cat with a brightly striped hat in the backyard and sending the little story with the picture to our niece. Here's what I came up:
Hi 6 year old niece,
A funny thing happened to the Amazing Wife and I the other day. We were sitting at our kitchen table eating our dinner, when we heard Moxie meowing excitedly. We looked around the kitchen and didn’t see her. We checked the living room and the bedroom, and still we couldn’t find her.
“Where is she?” I asked.
“Maybe she’s in the green room”, the Amazing Wife said.
We walked into the green room and voila! We found Moxie staring out the window looking at a cat in our backyard. We thought the cat looked interesting, so the Amazing Wife and I went outside to see what was up with the cat.
When we got outside, we noticed the cat had a brightly colored hat on its head, and a red tie around his neck. He was carrying a blue umbrella in one hand and a fish in a fish bowl in the other. He was a nice cat, so we introduced ourselves. We told the cat that Moxie would like to hang out and play with the cat wearing the brightly striped hat.
“If you wish, you can come inside and join Moxie for some tuna fish”, we said.
The cat paused for a moment and said, “I’d love to but I am just passing through, I have some things to do with my friends Thing One and Thing Two.”
We were sad that the cat couldn’t stay with Moxie and play, but we understood that he had to go.
“Come back soon won’t you?” we asked. “You and Moxie would have lots of good fun that is funny, when the sun is sunny”, we added.
“That I will do and I’ll bring my friends Thing One and Thing Two!” exclaimed the cat.
And that was that, off went the cat with a brightly striped hat. We don’t know what his name is or where he came from. It’s been a few days since we saw the cat, and Moxie still wants to play fun games with the cat. We’re trying to find the cat and aren’t having much luck. We didn’t have a chance to take his picture, but I drew this picture of the cat from what we remember of him, have you seen him?? Moxie would like to hang out and play with the cat that had a brightly striped hat!
Ya, I could get used to this job.
