Caren Krutsinger Poet Free verse

Kindergarten Students

Kindergarten students are on a planet of their own
They dance, hop, skip, sing, in every kind of tone.
Their excited voices raise up high enough to break glass.
If I am going to sub and I see kindergarten, I promptly pass.

Kindergarten students will play with fuzz on your zippers or your shirt.
They will act all prissy when you introduce worms, gardens or dirt.
Their parents have no secrets, they tell everything they ever know.
Kindergarten students skip, prance, jump, nothing they do is ever slow. 

They get under your elbows and cry when you raise your voice.
They do not answer to their Christian name, no one told them it was Royce.
They fight over each toy, and they tattle as fast as a snake rattles his stuff.
I cannot substitute teach in kindergarten, it is simply too tough!

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Jeff Kyser January 7, 2023 at 3:34 AM True - they are a challenging age! Enjoyed this, Caren.

Ilene Bauer January 6, 2023 at 10:21 AM Ha! Love this, Caren! When I started teaching, I subbed once in a kindergarten in the winter and had to put everyone’s snow boots on at the end of the day. That did it for me! Caren Krutsinger January 6, 2023 at 6:35 PM I had to put mittens on boots on 17 kindergarteners once. As we headed outside another teacher told me "it is too late; kindergarten cannot go out there with the fifth graders".