Was it a good day, or a bad day? I guess that depends on your perspective. If you were a student in our pre-k class, you probably had a great day. You played with play dough and made an awesome garden. You ran around the classroom pretending to be on safari, whooping and hollering, climbing up mountains and fighting jungle monsters.
You built a city, made cards, pretended to be dogs, lions, ninjas and explorers. You helped your friend learn a new game on the computer and you got to show the principal your masterpiece. If you are the teacher, it was one of the worst days ever. You were a fish in a fishbowl. The principal was in the classroom for you bi-annual evaluation, watching every move, judging your classroom management styles, seeing how you manage to run a small group and teach a high-level math concept to 4-5-year-olds while trying to maintain peace in the classroom. The students were yelling at each other across the room, refusing to sit down or settle down. The noise level was out of control. You had to stop what you were doing to try to explain once again how to use inside voices in the classroom. When you went back to the lesson, the principal was taking over, changing the lesson and trying to make it even more advanced.
You built a city, made cards, pretended to be dogs, lions, ninjas and explorers. You helped your friend learn a new game on the computer and you got to show the principal your masterpiece. If you are the teacher, it was one of the worst days ever. You were a fish in a fishbowl. The principal was in the classroom for you bi-annual evaluation, watching every move, judging your classroom management styles, seeing how you manage to run a small group and teach a high-level math concept to 4-5-year-olds while trying to maintain peace in the classroom. The students were yelling at each other across the room, refusing to sit down or settle down. The noise level was out of control. You had to stop what you were doing to try to explain once again how to use inside voices in the classroom. When you went back to the lesson, the principal was taking over, changing the lesson and trying to make it even more advanced. 
During clean-up time, a group of kids suddenly forgot how to clean up and put the blocks away as the principal was closely scrutinizing skills you had taught them. One child wandered around the classroom at will and refused to do anything you asked. When the principal left the room, it took everything inside of you to not curl up in a ball and cry or scream at the children in your craziest wild banshee imitation. I don't know about you, but given the choice, I think I would rather be the student on a day like today. 
ew! this is sucky!!! I don't ever want to have a job where I am going to have to be evaluated like this. I wanna be a kid forever!!! wait...no...no I don't, but I still don't want to be evaluated.
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