The kids gave their total attention as I built my tacos. They found it hilarious that my tacos fell apart as I ate them. Sometimes adults are just as messy eaters as kids.
Two days later two preschoolers brought their own version of a "healthy taco", sliced meat, cheese, and lettuce in a taco shell. The next day a child brought homemade taco fixings in her Hello Kitty Bento box.
What happens in preschool doesn't stay in preschool. It goes home. Good or bad. What a motivator to be the best influence for each child every day!
Attended a seminar at eight a.m. Saturday morning with three hundred other preschool educators in a hotel ballroom. Not much was available beyond vending machine snacks, but it was scary to see so many in attendance consuming a breakfast of Coke and Cheetos. I've got to hope they don't eat like that in front of their students.
Heard the reknowned One O'Clock Lab Band of the University of North Texas perform a jazz concert on the University of Texas-Dallas campus Friday. That's nutrition for the soul! So fantastic to see the college students playing at this level, and to hear several of their own compositions and arrangements.
The Jazz Studies Division in the UNT College of Music was formed in 1947 with one teacher and a handful of students as the first program of its kind. The UNT Music Library holds the Stan Kenton bequest of the famous band leader and early jazz educator's entire orchestra library of charts plus photos(and wouldn't that have been fun to catalog!).
If you need a nutritious soul lunch of jazz about now, try KNTU-FM online. I borrowed the Lab Band photo from the UNT website.
© 2007 Nancy L. Ruder
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