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Originally Posted by DaFace
Yeah, I'm pretty sure you left that one out of the job description. It was a fun experience for the most part, though I have to say that reading a book to a bunch of preschoolers (which I'm not good at) is a little weird when none of them speak English. I basically read a line, then waited on their teacher to translate. I eventually gave up and pretty much started gesturing and pointing to the cute pictures of a hedgehog.
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Groundhog! Groundhog! If a hedgehog sees his shadow in February 2nd, it means that we're facing six weeks of nuclear winter. Big difference.
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Originally Posted by DaFace
The only thing I can add to RM's story is that the art of "perusing" is developed somewhere during the kindergarten year. The preschoolers could walk to the table and pick a book in about 3.7 seconds, while the first graders would just walk around the table looking unless you told them that their time was up.
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I noticed that, too. Freaky, wasn't it? The little ones would go up to the table and just grab a book without even looking at it, and then all of a sudden at a certain age I'd have to eventually evict them. I had one girl who took so long to pick that finally the class left and the teacher just made her grab the nearest one.