"children's class"

I know, I know, I'm supposed to be freaking out about my anatomy test. I made a deal with myself, though,t hat if I put in some qualtiy study time between 2PM and 6PM I would get a break to blog about this morning's nutrition class with the kids.

There were five little people at today's class ranging in age from 3-8. They were sweet but energetic. I was really happy to have my little bit of past children's class experience so I could make sure to bring out their good sides, set clear boundaries and not have to punish kids who really (for the most part) are trying to do the best they can for me.

It was funny getting them to sing at the beginning. The bigger kids, of course, were almost too cool to sing. But of course once I started doubting whether they could sing faster or louder than the smaller ones all hesitancy disappeared. Kids who did the best job got to pick the next vegetable we sang about. We talked about the healthy foods we like to eat and colored broccoli, carrots, garlic and potatoes.

I told them a story about Princes Broccoli (a beautifuly pincess indeed, with her green afro) while watching TVand instantly recognized that Prince Carrot as her true love while watching a feature on Veggetable-odeon. The unfortunate prince, however, was locked away in a dragon-guarded castle in Albania lest the curse laid upon deprive him of his lovely orange pigment and turn  him into...gasp! a white carrot! That's not princely at all.

Princess Broccoli sells lemonade sells lemonade for 50 cents a cup until she can buy a plane ticket (if the ticket is $400, how many cups is that, kids?) and flies to Albania. On approaching the castle wall she pulls out her (what's a hard vegetable?) cucumber and pounds on the door. Then she scales the wall using a rope made of braided spinach. She drops (what's the smallest vegetable you can think of, guys?) olives behind her so she doesn't lose her way as she traverses a forest to find the castle.

Inside the intrepid Princes covers herself with potato slices to protect herself from the dragon's fiery breath. She creeps through the dark, searching for her true love until she sees THE DRAGON!!! His fiery breath turns her potato slices into fried potatoes as she runs up the tower steps and bumps right into...Prince Carrot!

Of course they instantly fall in love. The curse is broken, the castle walls fall down, the dragon flies away and Princess Broccoli and Prince Carrot live happily ever after.

I covered up the kids' names in the pictures. Aren't they cute, though? I miss children's class!!!