 Welcome To Mrs. Allen's Kindergarten!
Sunset Canyon Elementary School
2727 E. Siesta Lane
Phoenix, AZ 85050
602-449-5100
Voice Mail ~ 602-449-7779 x35113
Yes, I Teach Kindergarten
By Josephine Lemmons
When I am introduced as a teacher, I am usually asked what I teach.
When I say kindergarten, I generally hear a flat "Oh."
I have never been real certain whether it is an expression of pity,
sympathy, disgust, or perhaps disinterest.
Always I wish I had time to explain to them like this:
"Yes, I teach kindergarten. Where else could I tie so many hair ribbons
and belts and daily get to see a style show of pretty dresses and shirts?"
"Where else could I wear the same dress day after day
and be told each time that it is pretty?"
"Where else could I have the privilege of wiggling loose teeth and
receive a promise that I may pull them when they are loose enough to pull?"
"Where else could I eat a soiled piece of candy from a grimy little hand and
not become ill?" (I have to eat it because he watches to see that I do).
"Where else could I guide the look so bright as it does amid an energetic
group to whom nothing is impossible."
"Where else could I guide the first letter formation of a chubby hand that
may some day write a book or an important document?"
"Where else could I forget my own aches and pains because of so many cut
fingers, scratched knees, bumped heads and broken hearts in need of care?"
"Where else could I forget taxes and even the 'state of the nation' because
Stevie isn't grasping reading as he should and other methods must be tried?"
"Where else could I feel so close to my youth as with a group whose attention
span is so short that I must keep a bag of tricks up my sleeve?"
"Where else could I feel so close to my Maker as I do each year...
Yes, I do teach kindergarten, Mr. and Mrs. America, and I LOVE IT!"
This website was last updated on 3/1/10
Webmaster ~ Tracy Allen, Kindergarten Teacher
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