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	<title>Elbows, knees, dreams</title>
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	<description>A blog about preschool, public schools, and what it's really like to be a teacher</description>
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		<title>Pumpkin&#8217;s urgent mission</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reading a story the other morning, with lots of interruptions from a wiggly class, when Pumpkin interrupted me, while raising his hand (he is sort of getting the idea).
&#8220;Teacher! Teacher!  I have to go save the world!&#8221;
I looked at him, nonplussed.
&#8220;I have to go!  I have to go right now!  I have to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kiri8.wordpress.com&blog=3501562&post=663&subd=kiri8&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://kiri8.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/pumpkins-urgent-mission/</link>
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		<title>the first thanksgiving &#8212; an eyewitness account</title>
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Yesterday I told the children the story of the first Thanksgiving, in my own words.  Someone, maybe Cherry, interrupted me.
&#8220;Were you there?&#8221;
&#8220;No, I wasn&#8217;t there.  This happened hundreds of years ago.&#8221;  I continued with my story.  A few minutes later Pumpkin interrupted me.
&#8220;Were you there?&#8221;
&#8220;No, honey, I wasn&#8217;t there.  I&#8217;m [fill in the blank] years [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kiri8.wordpress.com&blog=3501562&post=658&subd=kiri8&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://kiri8.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/the-first-thanksgiving-an-eyewitness-account/</link>
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		<title>love my job; don&#8217;t want to go to work tomorrow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The mentoring part of my job is getting me down.  It bothers me that I have to do so much paperwork.  It bothers me that I have to spend so much time doing observations and conferences that I don&#8217;t really get to do much coaching.  It bothers me that I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m actually [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kiri8.wordpress.com&blog=3501562&post=655&subd=kiri8&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://kiri8.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/love-my-job-dont-want-to-go-to-work-tomorrow/</link>
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		<title>technology</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have a new IT guy.  The Prince says he&#8217;s one of the best in the district, and we&#8217;re lucky to have him.  He also happens to be Plum&#8217;s dad, and I&#8217;m Plum&#8217;s teacher, so I knew he&#8217;d say yes when I asked him to help me with a computer problem.
He came before school to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kiri8.wordpress.com&blog=3501562&post=653&subd=kiri8&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://kiri8.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/technology/</link>
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		<title>teacher blog turns into teacher book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been meaning to tell you all to buy It&#8217;s Not All Flowers and Sausages, the new book by Mrs. Mimi, the author of the It&#8217;s Not All Flowers and Sausages blog.  She is a teacher in NYC who loves teaching but maybe not some of the people she meets in the course of doing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kiri8.wordpress.com&blog=3501562&post=651&subd=kiri8&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://kiri8.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/teacher-blog-turns-into-teacher-book/</link>
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		<title>backpacks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Parents,
I&#8217;d like to take this opportunity to talk to you about backpacks.
It may surprise you to hear that I would like them to be empty, most of the time.  This means I would prefer it if your child not use it as a dumping ground for crayons, markers, snacks, books, coloring books, and old [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kiri8.wordpress.com&blog=3501562&post=649&subd=kiri8&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://kiri8.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/backpacks/</link>
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		<title>snapshots of the next day</title>
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This morning I put on my lovely new red coat and went out to meet the buses as they arrived.  When bus 3 came, I caught Cherry and Chutney as they got off and had them wait with me.  When all the kids were gone, the driver got off, and I told her that I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kiri8.wordpress.com&blog=3501562&post=646&subd=kiri8&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://kiri8.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/snapshots-of-the-next-day/</link>
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		<title>snapshots of the day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[*Cherry and Chutney got bus write-ups last week that showed up in my mailbox only this morning.  They were defiant to the bus driver and refused to sit down on the bus.  And Cherry called Chutney the B word.
*A staffer whose grandson is in my class told me that he had really paid attention to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kiri8.wordpress.com&blog=3501562&post=642&subd=kiri8&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://kiri8.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/snapshots-of-the-day/</link>
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		<title>glad I&#8217;m not a first year teacher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Monday Miss Slinger called before work to say that she was not feeling well, and wouldn&#8217;t be in.  I said that was fine, and was on my way to work before I remembered that my Monday help (a special ed teacher and a Spanish speaking aide) had both emailed last week to switch to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kiri8.wordpress.com&blog=3501562&post=639&subd=kiri8&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://kiri8.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/glad-im-not-a-first-year-teacher/</link>
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		<title>did I speak too soon?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I picked up my class from Music, the student teacher, Mr. K., said that Cherry and her best bud Chutney were awful.  They wouldn&#8217;t listen to him, wouldn&#8217;t follow directions, turned the pages of his book (when he was trying to read it), played with the window shade, hid behind the risers, and shoved [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kiri8.wordpress.com&blog=3501562&post=637&subd=kiri8&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://kiri8.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/did-i-speak-too-soon/</link>
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