68 - Toys at school.
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This classroom where I try to teach grade 1 on
Fridays, I guess it's almost June by now and it'll
be out for the summer soon. But the place
sometimes makes me sad. There's almost no toys and
no books in there, and I just think kids need some
stuff, sometimes. And so I'm always now stealing
cardboard out of people's garbage bins, and from
it I make story books we can practice reading
on. I can get crayons and glue and all that pretty
cheap at the Dollaroonie. And I can even make toys
from that cardboard. You just draw something on it
and cut it out, fold a flap under the bottom so it
can stand, then tape a folded pipe cleaner to the
back to give it some rigidity. I make tons of
figurines that way, and also toy letters we can
move around to practice building words. Some of
the kids really like those little figurines, and
it makes me glad to watch them play. Except for
that one elf kid who always takes her elf toy and
stomps all the homo-sap ones into the ground. All
while screaming some elf-word I don't know. It
makes me feel a little weird sometimes, but it's
just kids playing. It's fine.
