It's Day 73 of kindergarten and in some ways our large paper calendar grid and all the ways we mark it are routine--and yet for many 5-year-olds, time and its rate of passing remain mysterious. Yesterday Eliana was the Afternoon Leader, whose job it is to write the date, continue the pattern, and add a straw and a penny and a dot on the ten-frame to count the days of school.
I have the holidays matter-of-factly marked on the calendar but am politely declining to engage in any conversations about Santa, etc. Just as for most of October and Halloween, I keep remarking that it's still a lot of days until Winter Break--it's not "almost Christmas yet in Room 166," and we don't have an elf on the shelf. But next week we'll start our Gingerbread Man work and I won't be able to hold it off any longer!
At dismissal as she waited to be picked up, Eli considered the calendar and said with a question in her voice, "My sister says it's almost Christmas."
Almost
My sister says
it's almost Christmas,
almost, nearly,
close to here.
What is almost?
All those boxes
full and empty--
is it near?
Today is 12.
There's 25.
We have an elf
up on the shelf.
He is watching.
I am waiting--
watching too,
just like the elf.
Almost, nearly,
close to now?
I have to wait,
I know--
but how?
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