I am emailing about an incident that happened at the end of the day today. At the end of each day, we have our News Reporter go up and share what they have brought. As you know, it was Sam’s day. Unfortunately, Sam was in the block center helping clean up when the News Reporter was asked to come up and share. Another student came up and started sharing Sam’s treasures. We didn’t think anything about it, because we hadn’t double checked who the reporter was, and this student had a great imagination…the stories sounded so realistic! Terribly, we realized the mistake too late, when we saw that Sam had come to the carpet, was sitting and listening (poor kid!) and began to get upset. We all felt terrible about this oversight, and remedied the situation quickly. Sam bounced back so quickly, but we all felt so bad. L I pulled the other student aside and talked to them and then also with Sam. I told him it was ok to be upset and how we were sorry this happened to him. I told him not to worry if there is a mistake to tell us. He can always tell us anything. He nodded and understood. I told him I would also email you and let you both know about what happened. I’m hoping he will be feeling better by the time you see him, but I wanted to make sure you knew. Sorry again about this happening! We will make sure to double check jobs!!
When I picked up Sam later in the day I asked him how sharing went. He said it was good except for one mistake. He said that he cried because a boy took his treasures and he was afraid that he would never get them back. :-( He also said he's not sure if his friend was lying or not because the friend told the class he found the gems in his backyard. I love that Sam assumes positive intent and I also love that his preschool teacher went out of her way to let me know what happened. Mistakes like this in preschool can happen and it would have been pretty easy just to sweep this incident under the rug.
A day later I told Laura this story and she said, "We have got to work on Sam using his firm voice." Lord knows if this happened to her she wouldn't have been sitting on the classroom rug crying. How in the world did I produce two very different kids?! And how in the world will they ever know how much I love and adore both of them for being just who they are?
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