So far my classes have been going well. I have really been connecting with my older kids. It's my kinders that still need some basic lessons. Usually if a kid asks to use the bathroom, I let them go. If they ask right after the whole class went on a bathroom break, or they have gone three times that day, I say no, because by then I know they are asking to go just so they can leave the room. One day, a boy in my kindergarten class named Dan asked to use the bathroom twice in one hour. When he asked me again, I said," no Dan, you have used it twice in one hour." Usually when I do let him go to the bathroom, he just wanders the hallways with no intention of using the bathroom. To prove a point I wasn’t going to let him do that anymore. Only, he had a more potent point to show me. When the class was getting ready to leave, putting on their outdoor shoes and packing their bags, Dan said in a rather quiet voice and holding on to his pants: “Kate Teacher, I went bathroom.” ...
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