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    Kindergarten Conversations: Treasured Memories from Thirty Years of Teaching
    Kindergarten Conversations: Treasured Memories from Thirty Years of Teaching
    Kindergarten Conversations: Treasured Memories from Thirty Years of Teaching
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    Kindergarten Conversations: Treasured Memories from Thirty Years of Teaching

    By Carol Porter Noser and Dan Ng

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    As we were getting drinks one day, a little girl said, Mrs. Noser, when this fountain runs out of water, can you fill it with Kool-Aid?

    It is no secret that a group of five-year-olds have the ability to provide an interesting and entertaining perspective on life. Just ask Carol Porter Noser, a veteran kindergarten teacher who for thirty years listened in on the amusing and endearing comments made by her students.

    Noser considers teaching young children to be one of the best jobs in the world. After one of her students asked her one day, Do you have a job? and another asked her, Do you work? she soon realized that they all instinctively knew she loved to teach. From early on, Noser jotted down the silly, sad, and funny comments her students made, eventually compiling a collection after she retired. As she shares one witty anecdote after another, she provides a glimpse into the very active and imaginative minds of five-year-olds who never let anyone forget how smart they really are about what is important in life.

    From rather open discussions about their family, to the misuse of words, to questions about God, the children profiled in Kindergarten Conversations share their innocent and honest views of the world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateMar 20, 2012
    ISBN9781469763866
    Kindergarten Conversations: Treasured Memories from Thirty Years of Teaching
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    Carol Porter Noser

    Carol Porter Noser graduated from Huntington College in Huntington, Indiana, and earned her master’s degree from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. She taught at West Noble Schools in Ligonier, Indiana, for thirty years. Now retired, Carol and her husband live in Warsaw, Indiana, where they enjoy spending time with their children and grandchildren.

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      Kindergarten Conversations - Carol Porter Noser

      Contents

      Preface

      What a Job!

      Cute Comments

      Word Mix-Ups

      Hooray for Special Days!

      Acknowledgments

      Preface

      Teaching kindergarten was fun for me. I loved my job! During my thirty years at West Noble Elementary in Ligonier, Indiana, I heard the kids say many cute things. At some point in my teaching career, I decided to start writing down some of their comments. When you are teaching five and six-year old children, there are no extra moments to write while the little scholars are in the room. Instead, I would jot down a few words on a piece of scrap paper and stuff it into my journal so I could write it out later when I had time.

      When I retired from teaching in 2006, one of my goals was to write and publish a book of conversations I’d had with kindergarten students. What a delight it has been for me to go back and relive those precious moments with the children. I hope you find these real-life situations to be as amusing as I did.

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      What a Job!

      I consider teaching young children to be one of the best jobs in the world. Even though teaching kindergarten can be very stressful and frustrating, it is also very rewarding. I loved my job. I guess that was apparent to at least one of my students, because one day he asked me, Do you have a job?

      On another occasion, my assistant and I were busily opening twenty-four milk cartons and salad dressing packets at lunch when a little girl looked up at me and said, Do you work?

      I said, Sure, this is my work.

      She answered, No, I mean do you get up and go to work some place every day?

      Sometimes the children melted my heart with their comments. Like when one child said, Mrs. Noser, I like your heart. It is charming.

      Our family doctor’s granddaughter was in my class one year, and during that time I went to see him for an allergy problem. When I sat down, he started looking in my hair, and I said, Are you looking for gray hair?

      No, a halo, he answered.

      Well, I don’t have a halo! I

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