Ladies and gents, I just got a promotion at work. I am now Market Secretary. That means that I am the boss of my market nursery school. One of the first changes that I have instituted is an increase in discipline. In the past, the kids wreaked havoc because no one enforced rules. I now give time outs. At first, the kids all wanted time outs. The question, ''¿Quieres un 'time out?'' sounded so exotic. Now, they are starting to realize that it is not fun to sit in corners by themselves.
In addition to augmenting discipline, I have tried to develop more creative activities. This past week, we studied the parts of the body. On Ear Day, we made musical instruments, and on Stomach Day, we decorated cookies.
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Gap Year Reading List
- Banker to the Poor: Micro-Lending and the Battle Against World Poverty (Muhammad Yunus)
- Candide (Voltaire)
- Catch 22 (Joseph Heller)
- Equus (Peter Shaffer)
- Full Circle: A South American Journey (Luis Sepúlveda) (also known as Patagonia Express)
- Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu (J. Maarten Troost)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (JK Rowling)
- Hija de la Fortuna (Isabel Allende)
- Interpreter of Maladies (Jhumpa Lahiri)
- Life, the Universe and Everything (Douglas Adams)
- Little Pink Slips (Sally Koslow)
- Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America (Barbara Ehrenreich)
- Sexo en Nueva York (Spanish translation of Sex in the City) (Candace Bushnell)
- Sophie's World (Jostein Gaarder)
- Symposium (Plato)
- The Da Vinci Code (Dan Brown)
- The Glass Castle (Jeannette Walls)
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
- The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)
- The Lost Continent (Bill Bryson)
- The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (Jeffrey Toobin)
- The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (Douglas Adams)
- The Trial of Henry Kissinger (Christopher Hitchens)
- The Witches of Eastwick (John Updike)
- Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations One School at a Time (David Oliver Relin and Greg Mortenson)
- Tunnel Vision (Sara Paretsky)
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2 comments:
More discipline and time outs -- I love it. A woman after my own heart! When do you start teaching them forensics?
That's so very very cool and rewarding.
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