Category Archives: Children Stories

“Nap Time” By Gaylene Call

November 27, 2015Kindergartenkid story, kindergarten, kindergarten story, nap time, naps, time outChad Robert Parker

I attended Kindergarten in the 60’s and had afternoon Kindergarten. In the 60’s we had our little braided rugs that we would get out, after they were rolled up and stored away and take naps. I hated naps and to this day I still hate taking naps. A lot of people love Sunday afternoons and look forward to the most anticipated nap. Not me!

I remember being 3-4 years old and hating naps. So to get out of having to take a nap I would drink my milk and graham really slow. This was done before nap time. The longer it took me to eat the graham crackers and drink the milk the less time I had to lay down and pretend to sleep.

This memory is so vivid to me even 50 years later because I hate naps. This was the most vivid memory of kindergarten to me. A lot has changed with how kindergarten is today and how it was in the 60’s.

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“Kindergarten Halloween” By Diana Hammer

November 27, 2015KindergartenHalloween activities for kids, kids costumes, kids Halloween story, kindergarten HalloweenChad Robert Parker

Well at our kindergarten Halloween Party I was Unikitty from the Lego Movie. We got to play a game pretending we were witches. I got to make a witches brew. We read a story about a witch in a haunted house. We played a game with marshmallows and we pretended they were ghosts. That night I went trick or treating with my sister and mom and dad. I got so much candy!

(Story by permission of her mom).

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“School Daze” by Chad Robert Parker

September 29, 2015KindergartenChad Robert Parker

My family moved when I was five years old and I transferred schools in the middle of Kindergarten. The second program focused on the phonetic alphabet and the first program focused on whatever the opposite of that is called. I learned the letters in the first school, but the second school wanted to focus on the sounds. Confused? I was.

My new Kindergarten teacher would put me in a chair everyday and then place headphones on my ears. I had never interacted with a computer quite like that before. It didn’t register at first that I was supposed to be following along and writing something on a page rather than waiting for the audio story to begin.

First, the voice gave me an instruction to write my name at the top of the page. I was curious to see where this was going. Then it proceeded to instruction number two, three, and four about the sounds of letters. By this point I was yawning and my teacher would come by and wonder why I hadn’t completed the first step. Don’t get me wrong, I’m no dummy. I may not have known very many of the other answers even if I had tried, but I knew how to put my name on the page. I just didn’t see the point in it.

Why do a boring assignment when not doing it would result in me being sent to the coloring table every day.

I spent my Kindergarten class time becoming an artist.

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