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Conversation with a Kindergartner

November 03, 2024 • Travis Thomas

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Fun with a kindergartner's experience in a new environment and all that he encounters on the way.

SPEAKER_02 0:15

Welcome to It's a Kids World podcast. Um, this is our first time doing this. This is something that's new at our school that we wanted to allow kids to have a voice. We wanted um our kids to be able to talk about things that they feel, talk about things that's going on in their lives, and just be able to express themselves. So, starting off, I have one of my kindergartners here with me, and we're just gonna talk about how he feels about school, how it's new for him, and how to how he feels. So, how you feeling?

SPEAKER_00 0:53

For school?

SPEAKER_02 0:54

I know how you feeling? You feel good, you feel bad, you feel okay?

SPEAKER_01 0:57

I feel good.

SPEAKER_02 0:59

You feel good?

SPEAKER_01 0:59

School is super fun.

SPEAKER_02 1:02

School is super fun.

SPEAKER_01 1:03

I feel like those kids that don't go to the school, they need to come because it's super fun. And it's a lot of learning here. You get to go to art recess gym. It's just so much fun here. And I feel like kids that don't have that, they should come here and do that.

SPEAKER_02 1:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:28

Back to you.

SPEAKER_02 1:29

Back to me. I hey, I like that. Hey, I'm gonna have to have you on all the time. So tell me, so before coming to kindergarten, did you go to like Head Start or anything like that?

SPEAKER_01 1:40

So before I started this school, I went to Furview.

SPEAKER_02 1:47

Uh did you like it? Was it was it fun?

SPEAKER_01 1:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:50

Okay, what's the difference? Like, what what's different like there and now? Like, what do you see?

SPEAKER_01 1:57

I see a lot of things that they made here that was so go cool. So I feel like like I play football. Okay, but when I come home and I gotta play football, I be like getting tired, but I don't get tired because I play football. And tackling is so much fun.

SPEAKER_02 2:29

Tackling is so much fun. Did you play football before you came to this school?

SPEAKER_01 2:34

Yes.

SPEAKER_02 2:35

You did? Alright. So what is something about kindergarten that you don't like? Cause sometimes we like stuff and then sometimes it's things that we don't like, right? So what do you feel like are some things that you do not like about kindergarten? I know it's something, so you're not gonna get in trouble if you say it what you don't like.

SPEAKER_01 2:56

I don't like missing brain breaks, and I don't like people hitting me. Well, people hitting on you.

SPEAKER_02 3:06

Don't say don't say any names, but people be hitting on you? Do you tell the teacher?

SPEAKER_01 3:11

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 3:12

Does the teacher do anything?

SPEAKER_01 3:13

Mm-hmm. But sometimes I just wanted to be speak up on my own because I don't want to get punked.

SPEAKER_02 3:23

Right, okay.

SPEAKER_01 3:24

So I just do it on my own.

SPEAKER_02 3:27

Okay. Do you ever like speak up for yourself when people are bothering you? What are the what are some of the things that you say, like when you speak up for yourself?

SPEAKER_01 3:36

I say, hey, I don't like that you just hit me and you didn't say sorry.

SPEAKER_02 3:43

Do they apologize or they kinda ignore it?

SPEAKER_01 3:46

Uh they kinda ignore it.

SPEAKER_02 3:48

They kind of ignore it. Do people ever apologize to you?

SPEAKER_01 3:52

Some people do and some people don't.

SPEAKER_02 3:54

Okay. How does it make you feel?

SPEAKER_01 3:56

Like when people do stuff and then they kinda They give me like sadness and anxiety.

SPEAKER_02 4:05

Anxiety? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Where where did you learn that word from? Who taught you that word?

SPEAKER_01 4:11

Inside out.

SPEAKER_02 4:12

Inside out? The movie?

SPEAKER_01 4:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:15

So can you tell me what anxiety means? Do you know the meaning?

SPEAKER_01 4:19

Yeah, I know the meaning.

SPEAKER_02 4:21

Okay, tell me, what does that mean? What does anxiety mean?

SPEAKER_01 4:25

It means like kinda said and kinda serious, but mixed together, but it's something.

SPEAKER_02 4:37

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 4:38

It's something that I don't like about people bullying.

SPEAKER_02 4:44

Right. It's pretty smart.

SPEAKER_01 4:46

Like people beating me up.

SPEAKER_02 4:49

We don't need nobody beating you up now.

SPEAKER_01 4:51

Yeah, I know that. Yeah, so I like about the thing that I don't like about kindergarten.

SPEAKER_02 5:02

Mm-hmm. Oh yeah, because we're still talking about that. Okay, what you don't like?

SPEAKER_01 5:05

Uh I don't like missing recess.

SPEAKER_02 5:08

You don't like missing recess? Recess is important, huh?

SPEAKER_01 5:11

Yeah, to me.

SPEAKER_02 5:12

It's to you. Why is it so important to you?

SPEAKER_01 5:14

Cause I like Reese. Every kid likes Reese.

SPEAKER_02 5:18

Every kid does like recess. You are you are correct about that. You know something I notice about you every day? Like when you be in the cafeteria. What's your favorite thing to do?

SPEAKER_01 5:29

Dance.

SPEAKER_02 5:30

Who taught you how to dance?

SPEAKER_01 5:32

Uh nobody.

SPEAKER_02 5:34

You just started doing it?

SPEAKER_01 5:35

Yeah, I just doing it.

SPEAKER_02 5:37

Does it does dancing put you in a good mood?

SPEAKER_01 5:41

It puts me in joy.

SPEAKER_02 5:43

It puts you in joy. I like that. Okay. So I'm gonna ask you five quick questions and then we'll we'll stop, okay? But you you did real good. So mind you, me and him, we haven't like rehearsed anything. Like, it's just him like speaking his mind. Like, and and that's the reason why I wanted to have this conversation with you because kindergarten is a big step, huh? It is a big step. All right.

SPEAKER_01 6:07

And we don't take naps, cuz.

SPEAKER_02 6:08

And y'all don't take naps. Right. You don't take naps. Y'all big boys.

SPEAKER_01 6:12

I don't like that.

SPEAKER_02 6:13

You don't like you you you don't like that y'all don't take naps or you wanna take a nap?

SPEAKER_01 6:17

I wanna take a nap.

SPEAKER_02 6:19

Well, you'll take a nap when you get home. You'll be okay. Alright, five quick questions. First question Favorite color?

SPEAKER_01 6:24

Blue, red, and black.

SPEAKER_02 6:27

Favorite food?

SPEAKER_01 6:28

Uh uh fish and pizza.

SPEAKER_02 6:32

Favorite movie?

SPEAKER_01 6:34

Uh that is a good question. Overing and dad pool.

SPEAKER_02 6:41

Interesting. Favorite candy?

SPEAKER_01 6:43

That's a good one. Lollipops.

SPEAKER_02 6:48

Man, lollipops cheese. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 6:52

And Snickers. And and warheads.

SPEAKER_02 6:58

And warheads, okay. Last question. What do you want to do in kindergarten before school is over? Before you go to the first grade. What's one thing you want to do in kindergarten?

SPEAKER_01 7:13

One thing?

SPEAKER_02 7:14

One thing.

SPEAKER_01 7:15

Uh, I wanna go to Ms. Hutchison class.

SPEAKER_02 7:20

Oh, Jesus Christ. I said before you go to first grade. But hey, we'll take that. We'll take that. So that's it. That concludes our first pilot run. This is our first episode. And it's going to be more episodes with other students. That's going to be um quite entertaining, but also an eye-opener for people that don't get a chance to have conversations with their, you know, kids at home as well as their students at school. That's it for It's a Kids World Podcast. Thank you.