A few weeks ago, my son came home from kindergarten and shared that at recess he played with the gnome. I\u2019m pretty familiar with the playground and the areas where kids play. There\u2019s the little toy, the big toy, the forest, the soup tree, and the sandbox (also known as the long jump pit) but I\u2019d never heard about this gnome.<\/p>\n
I also couldn\u2019t think of any supervisors that, in the eyes of a five-year-old, might have looked like a gnome.<\/p>\n
I asked where the gnome was.<\/p>\n
He told me it was by the trees and lots of kids were playing with it, trying to get on the gnome. My confusion must have shown, and he further explained that it had a round shape, was near the swings, and was made from metal.<\/p>\n
Ahhhhh! The Dome. Phew.<\/p>\n
One of the most enjoyable things about spending the day with children is communicating with them. I often hear things that are hilarious, but also clever, insightful, and reflective.<\/p>\n
I love that at our house, hand sanitizer is called \u201c<\/span>hanitizer\u201d<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0and we\u2019ll likely call it that forever.<\/p>\n When I taught grade 1, a student shared with me that the braid in her hair wasn\u2019t a regular braid, but a French braid. Then she explained that the reason her mom could do a French braid was because she used to be in French Immersion.<\/p>\n One of our elementary teachers was recently told she wasn\u2019t an adult because she wasn\u2019t married, although she did have her own car.<\/strong><\/span> After some discussion among her students, they decided that perhaps grown-up teenager was a more appropriate term.<\/p>\n There is a student this year who regularly comes by the office who doesn\u2019t remember Mrs. Schuurman\u2019s name and affectionately calls her Office. It always brightens our day when she walks by and with a wave and a smile says, \u201cHello Office.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Talking with children reminds me that one of God\u2019s good gifts to us is our ability to communicate with one another.<\/p>\n What are some memorable sayings and stories that you have heard from children? Share them in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few weeks ago, my son came home from kindergarten and shared that at recess he played with the gnome. I\u2019m pretty familiar with the playground and the areas where kids play. There\u2019s the little toy, the big toy, the forest, the soup tree, and the sandbox (also known as the long jump pit) but […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":6132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,28],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-6128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elementary","category-nurturing-hearts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6128"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbotsfordchristian.com\/insideout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=6128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}