Preschool's India Bazaar
Exotic spices filled the air along with the calls of street merchants. The bustling crowd of proud and curious parents were clamoring about. Was I really in the Rainbow playground or had I found myself transported into the middle of an Indian street bazaar? All around me I saw the blue room preschoolers dressed up in colorful and fancy clothes as they sat at their stalls (mats) along the paved area. Some stalls were shops where the children hawked trinkets like bangles and tie dyed fabric (made by the preschoolers earlier this month). Other stalls I visited were informational stalls where the student told me about yoga or cleaning brass.
India doesn’t seem like the typical subject preschoolers would learn about. So their teacher, Jessica Redford explained. “The kids were very interested in India ever since Molly went.” Molly was the after school preschool teacher with us last year. She left us and Asheville to tour India for six months. While in India she sent her former class a large box full of bangles, little wooden trinkets for counting and beautiful cloths for dress up.
Today the children celebrated all they had learned about India with their bazaar and then a large Indian feast. Their parents supplied the tasty, aromatic meal, and the children supplied their fair share of excitement.
