The Littlest of Hearts By Ashley
I recently started working as a literacy tutor for kindergarten, 2nd, and 4th grade students. I spent 24 years teaching in an upper elementary classroom, and there is a reason! Kindergarten is heck-a challenging! There is truly a special place in heaven for Kindergarten teachers! All my hats off, Aunt Ellen!
A thirty-minute lesson with a group of 5-year-olds can be quite a roller coaster ride. You might start nice and smooth, and then suddenly everything goes sideways, upside down, and in reverse all at once. One child is laughing, one child is crying, one child is falling asleep sitting straight up, one child is under the table, one child wants to dance on the table, one needs to go potty, one needs to get water, one needs their shoe tied, and another is tattling because someone looked at them. You have no idea how the child that was being blamed could have possibly looked at them because that child is the one who fell asleep sitting straight up. For the love of Pete and all the other saints, all you are trying to do is to get the lot of them to rhyme cat with hat.
However, no matter how roller-coaster-like the lesson might get, at the end of the ride, these smallest students with the littlest hearts will not only make amends with each other but also hug you and tell you they love you.
How wonderful to find love in the daily roller coaster that we call life. We can definitely learn a lot from these littlest of hearts.
