snail

I made this snail this morning. I love little projects like this.  Start to finish – 45 minutes.  So satisfying.

Tomorrow is Stella's last day at Temple Emanuel Nursery School. Next year she will be in pre-K at PAWS, the public pre-school in Wellesley.  This is marking the end of four years of driving back and forth to Newton Centre in morning rush hour. It is also the end of Jewish nursery school. Nursery school has been a learning experience for all of us.  Although I was a teacher before I was a mom, I did not know much about early childhood education. Watching two very different little girls go through this time I have been so thankful for those teachers who really worked to understand each child, to meet them where they were and to bring them along through the year to where they could be.  There have also been teachers who were so focused on moving through their own agendas that they could not listen to the children, or their parents, and could not see what was in front of them even though they were working very hard.  I think if I were to go back to teaching now, after being a mom, I would have a better insight into each child's individual struggles, and each family's history with that particular child.