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34 Glebe Report March 10, 2017

Photo: sheri seGal GliCK

Peter, Gabi, Elliot, Emma, Jagger (and Matthew hiding) hanging out at the Glebe Co-op Nursery School

Duty day’s anatomy

by Sheri Segal Glick 9:45: Play with blocks. Try to behind so she thinks that she is doing
remember to share the blocks with it herself.
One of the perks of being at a co-oper- the children. 11:15: Watch as the kids play with
ative nursery school is the fact that 9:55: Wipe a runny nose and take dolls, strollers, plasma cars, pedal
you get to go back to preschool for a a child to wash her hands. Feel good cars, balls and mats in the gym. Use
day every couple of months when you about the fact that your child is not the the opportunity to take a bunch of pic-
are the duty parent. Here is the anat- only one who makes a huge puddle tures of your child and her besties.
omy of a duty day: every time she gets near a tap. 11:30: Greet parents arriving to pick
8:35 a.m.: Arrive at the school, hang 10:00: Read a book (or ten) on the up their children. Tell everyone how
out in the playground with the teachers couch. Feel like a rock star as all of cute their child is, and mean it.
and kids. Try to stay clean(ish). the kids try to sit on your lap, touch 11:35: Stuff leftover snack into your
9:00: Walk in with the kids, help you or get a piece of you. mouth – you can get a lot of mini
them remove outside clothing and 10:10: Watch with pride as your muffins in there. Leave happy and
boots. Convince two children to put child, the “duty child” turns out exhausted. Wonder how the teachers
their shoes on the proper feet. Give the lights and gets to utter her long- do it every day.
up trying to convince your own child. rehearsed line: “Tidy up time!” 11:55: Recap with your child. Look
9:07: Enter the classroom and watch 10:15: Help tidy up, wipe down on the calendar to find your next duty
the kids greet their little friends as tables and put out sippy cups and the day. You are looking forward to it
though they haven’t seen each other in snack that you prepared at home. Wit- already.
months rather than mere minutes ago. ness how easily the teachers get the
9:10: Check out the art table and kids to clean their hands. rEGISTrATION IS UNDErWAy!
paint station. Talk a child into wear- 10:28: Feel like Martha Stewart Registration for the 2017 – 2018
ing a smock. Feel like you have just when the kids ask for seconds and school year has started, but it’s not
successfully negotiated the Dayton thirds of the muffins you made and the too late! Packages are available at
Accords. cheese and fruit you not only selected, the Glebe Community Centre, at the
9:20: Check out the play-dough table. but sliced! school (downstairs at the community
Play with said play-dough. Make it look 10:45: Listen to circle time – of centre) or for download on our website
like you are doing grown-up duty-par- course your kid is the smartest! – as at ottawapreschool.com.
ent stuff when a teacher walks by. you clean up the snack area, rinse cups
9:30: Walk over to the playhouse and put them back into school bags. Sheri Segal Glick is the communica-
area. Allow the children to serve you 11:00: Walk with the esteemed duty tions chair of the Glebe Co-op Nursery
a lovely dinner of plastic eggs, plastic child at the front of the line as the kids School board. This is her fifth year do-
muffins, plastic chicken and fancy air go either outside or to the gymnasium ing duty days and yet when writing this
tea while you get your hair “done” in in inclement weather. Help the duty article she still needed to be reminded
the “salon.” child hold the door but only from what time snack time starts and ends.

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