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to Mrs. Bedney’s
Kindergarten
Dates
to Remember
April
30 Trip to Long Island Children’s Museum
May
18 Trip to White Post Farm
June
9 Teddy Bear Picnic
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a Look at Us!
Halloween and Third Grade Readers
Reading Day and Green Eggs and Ham
Long Island Center for Arts and Sciences
This Week’s
Guest Reader
May 14, 2010
All I Ever Needed
to Know, I Learned In Kindergarten
By Robert Fulghum
Most of what I really need to
know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in
kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top
of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand box at nursery
school. These are the things I learned.
Share everything. Play fair. Don’t hit people. Put things back where you
found them. Clean up your own mess.
Don’t take things that aren’t yours.
Say you are sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life. Learn
some and think some and draw some and paint and sing and dance and play and work
everyday. Take a nap every
afternoon. When you go out in the world,
watch for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the plastic cup?
The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or
why. We are like that. And then remember that book about Dick and
Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all: LOOK! Everything you need to know is there
somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and
basic sanitation, ecology, and politics and sane living. Think of what a better world it would be if
we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about 3 o’clock every afternoon
and then lay down with our blankets for a nap.
Or we had a basic policy in our nation and other nations to always put
things back where we found them and clean up our own messes. And it is still true, no matter how old you
are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.