I am from the USA. I like to shop and drive through the country. I don't like sports. I like hiking and nature. I went to school to be a nurse, but am a teacher now. I enjoy teaching kindergarten. I have 10 kids in my class.
I am from Canada. I like marathons and baseball. I run marathons.
Have you run any marathons lately? No, I've been training a lot. Doing a lot of short runs on some of the local hiking trails. You been out hiking lately? Yes I actually took my class on a little mini-hike yesterday afternoon it was perfect weather the kiddo's loved it! How's the weather for you up there? We've had a lot of snow, but I suppose I'm conditioned to it. Does make it a bit tedious to find a clear trail to run on and sometimes I just end up watching baseball. Where did you guys go hiking? Well we are lucky enough to have the Redwood forest as our backyard basically so we just went down one of the more mild trails at the state park. The kids got to go through a Redwood tree tunnel they loved it. It's amazing just how massive those trees can get, have you ever seen one in real life? Unfortunately, I never have. I'd love to though. I bet the kids did love it. There is a grove of huge oaks by one of the creeks where I live that are easily 100 feet tall.  Nice! do they get wide as well as tall? No. I think that's what interests me the most. I mean they are wide, but 2 people could hold hands around the base of their trunks. It's the hight and density of them that really fascinates me. Will the kids get a quiz over what they learned on the hike? Ha nah probably not we don't do very much quizzing as they are only Kindergardener's after all. There will be plenty of time for seriousness in the future with this age group I mainly just focus on them having fun and learning social and life skills for now. Do children in Canada start testing at the Kindergarten stage?  Oh, yea, I'm not to familiar. And it's been a while since I was in kindergarten. I do remember getting gold star stickers though. LOL How do you "test" their progress? You do have a point there; I mean, I suppose they do get tested by the state to measure progress but I personally use different methods. Do you have children? No, my sister has a couple of kids though and that's enough children in my life for now. 