Snippets from a kindergarten field trip.
I went on Gleek’s kindergarten field trip today. I had a group of 6 kids to keep track of. I announced that they were all my chicks and I was their mother hen. That meant they needed to follow me everywhere. This declaration was met with a chorus of “Yay!” then the cheerfully trailed after me and cheeped all the way to the school bus. We got off the school bus and they followed me and cheeped until we got near the farm animals. Then they scattered. I spent the next hour calling “Where are my chickies?” and counting to 6.
When the field trip was almost through one of the little boys started scowling at me.
Me: “What’s wrong?”
Boy: “I don’t want to be a chick.”
Me: “Okay. You don’t have to be a chick. Would you like to be a rooster?”
Boy scowled even more: “No!”
Me: “What do you want to be?”
Boy: “A jedi!”
I agreed he could be a jedi as long as he stayed close to me. So for the rest of the trip I was calling out for my 5 chickies and my one Jedi. Things got really entertaining when the jedi decided that his purpose was to slay all the chicks with his lightsaber. Fortunately it was time to get on the bus.
Under “Pandemonium” in the dictionary, it should list “Kindergarten fieldtrip bus.”