Fifteen preschoolers held on to the 20 ft. red rope as we walked from school to Whole Foods this morning.   We finally arrived and Sandy gave us the grand tour.  We had a blast indulging in the samples “du jour” - a combination of blood oranges, cantaloupe, cheeses, turkey, dried bananas, freshly ground peanut butter, bison, cookies, pineapple, and blueberries.  Great day!

Without a doubt, I’m ready for spring.   In fact, I have transformed part of my preschool classroom into a farmer’s market.  The kids have been filling up their crates with plastic strawberries, green peppers, eggs, blueberries, tomatoes, apples (and every now and then a lego).   They love to create beautiful flower arrangements for each other and tie them up with pipe cleaners and brown paper bags.     

In my opinion, teaching preschool just might be one of the best jobs in the world. I came home from work on Friday, emptied my pockets, and found an assortment of treasures including a purple Crayola marker cap, a tootsie roll wrapper, an acorn, a red heart cut out of construction paper, a miniature bottle of hand sanitizer and and a fortune which read, “A vacation by the sea is in store for you.”After studying Japan in our classroom and making origami, sushi, a bonsai tree, paper puppets and Japanese fans, I thought it would be a great idea to take all fourteen students to Teppanyaki, a traditional style of Japanese cooking where the food is cooked on a large grill in front of you. The kids had a blast and the chefs put on quite a show by making an onion volcano, catching eggs in their hats, and lighting vegetables on fire. Here is a picture from the day!