February 5

Boy T had not been using his inside shoes in the classroom for most of the day since three days ago. He could understood why we need to wear them but he wasn't able to keep them on because it seemed to be pretty tight. Then he brought new shoes today! Some of the strings on the shoes had been cut to make sure it wasn't too tight. I guessed he had tried them on before hand. I thanked her(maybe say who e.g. his mother) about it. However, he wasn't as energetic as I thought. According to her(again who?), he was still slightly sick and was given Tylanor last night.
During lunch time, he started to take off his shoes. I asked him where are your new shiny shoes. He realized that he taken them off and said,” My shoes... Oh yeah my new shoes...”He asked me to help to put them on, so I helped him but I let him to do buckle. He did it carefully while talking,” This is supposed to be like this....and buckle.” Then he ran to the restroom. At afternoon free play time, he didn't put on shoes again, so I encouraged him to wear them by himself. Boy E, who often plays with him came by and offered him help with big smile. T nodded. When E had buckled up, T started to cry. I realized the shoes were still too tight to wear for him, plus he hadn't fully recovered from his cold yet. So I thanked E for helping him and told him why he was crying. E asked to him to play with the fire truck. T stopped crying and started to play without shoes. I told his mom to cut more string to loosen the shoes for him. She did it right away when she picked him up. I really felt comfortable talking to her and I learned again that communication is the most important tool, otherwise I couldn't figure out why he cried often and took off his shoes and how to deal with him. I did a circle time afternoon. When I asked each children "how are things going this afternoon so far?", they answered with very creative and varied responses. For example, fist bump, high five, low five, answering shyly, answering with enthusiasm, and pretending to be  a pig! I was very surprised to get the answer from sweet piggy. She, (a.k.a the piggy) likes to pretend to be animals and I often saw her during the day. Her piggy sound made my circle atmosphere great. The children laughed a lot in a good way. I love how they expressed themselves.

Nice :)