SOLSC #23 What book does your life seem like?

During the month of March, I am participating in
the Slice of Life Story Challenge.
All participants are writing about one moment, one part of their day, every day for thirty-one days. My slices will be primarily about teaching preschoolers.

Check out the Two Writing Teachers website for many more reflections on teaching.

Day 23 and my mind is blank. What to write about? Another very full day at school. I feel as if I have only fragments, remnants, shreds to share. 

On my way into school, I was thinking about picture books and how they can parallel my teaching day...I wonder if this is how their authors imagined them, as metaphors for the adult world? I bet it is so. For example, I often feel as if I am living in the next installment of If You Give a Mouse a Cookie...

let me run with this, beginning with the yummy donut that started my day...

If you give a teacher a donut in the staff lounge,

she will want a cup of hot tea to go with it.

If she has a cup of hot tea, she will need to put it on a high shelf in her classroom, so that children won't grab it.

If she puts it on the high shelf, she will see the sign-in clipboard and suddenly realize

she needs to do breakfast duty.

If she is going to do breakfast duty, she will leave the rest of her donut with her tea and run to the cafeteria.

If she runs to the cafeteria, she will be thinking about her plans for the school day ahead.
If she is thinking about her plans, she won't notice that his jacket slipped from the chair and has fallen under the table.
If his jacket falls under the table, it will get covered in milk and syrup, because it is waffle day.
If it is waffle day, she will need many wipes and napkins, and she will wish she had them before children hug her to say hello.
If children hug her to say hello,
she will smile, and follow with more wipes.
If she runs out of wipes, she will be glad that it is time for students to head to their classrooms.
If students head to their classroom, she will hold sticky hands.
If she holds sticky hands, she will want to wash her hands in the classroom.
If she wants to wash her hands in the classroom, the children will see her and all want to do some washing, too.
If they help her wash out things, water will go everywhere.
If water goes everywhere, she will reach for paper towels and wish she had a cup of tea.
If she reaches for her tea, she will find it cold. But there will be a donut piece right next to it.
And that is pretty sweet.