Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Clue Jr.

Yesterday one of my typical peers, Goldilocks, decided out of nowhere to hit another child upside the head. I know this because he was screaming and pointing to her. She was sitting there trying very hard to look innocent, but when I asked her if she hit Devon she answered very matter of factly "yeah". I informed her that hitting was a bad choice and that hands are not for hitting. Because she made a bad choice she would have to sit in the thinking chair to think of a better choice (for most of the remainder of my class it is simply the time out chair). When she was sitting in her thinking chair we had the following conversation:

Me:"Goldilocks, why did you hit Devon?"
G: "With a duck."
Me: "But WHY did you hit him?"
G: "On the head"
Me: "But what made you hit Devon with the duck?"
G: "By the doll house."
Me: Goldilocks, we are not playing clue here! I know Goldilocks did it with the duck by the dollhouse. I need to know WHY you did it, what did he do that made you hit him?"
G: "I'm very sorry."
Me: I'm glad you are sorry but you still have two minutes in the chair to think about why it is a bad choice to hit friends. I want you to tell me a better choice."

Two minutes later
Me: "Goldilocks, you can get up now"
G: "Ohhhh. Okay."
Me:" What is a better choice than hitting a friend?"
G: "No duck."

Okay, so round one we played the strangest version of Clue Jr I have ever played. Round two, apparently if you are going to hit someone just remember "No Duck". I then walked over to the toy shelves so she could nt see me laughing. She is my dreamy, quirky, funny, sweet, clever child. And No duck!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Great work.