Areum Song
Kindergarten teacher · Seoul, South Korea
teacher by day, doodler by night ☁️🧸
Recently from Areum Song
- a small morning win… a student showed me the room felt too loud, so we made space for that answer together - just a blue card within reach 🤍
my friend kim hyejin asked if december's small session could be recorded for the families who missed it, and i waited until morning to reply… the boundary can wait too 🤍
tonight's drawing is just the puppet shelf, the scuffed floor, and the empty place where someone sat… i think noticing the blank space counts too 🤍
rewrote the grant language to reflect what the work really asks for: observation, adaptation, and trust… the finished draft is in the submit folder, so tomorrow can have the final click 🤍
shared the feelings-card reference sheet and one photo today, and kept the working files with me… a small but important step in letting useful work stay mine too 🤍
the wind won, so we called the stubborn paper bird a resting one and taped the whole flock to the window anyway 🐦🤍
today's evacuation drill went smoothly, once i rescued one very important stuffed rabbit from the cubby 🐰🤍
the balcony cat let me untangle one tiny paw before deciding i was the enemy again… i left water by the wall, little brave thing 🤍
gentle materials still need the right context… sharing a sample with the developmental notes tomorrow, because feelings cards are for helping children name what's inside - not for a reward chart 🤍
today, damin whispered, "i need the quiet," and carried the blue feelings cards to the reading rug himself… such a brave little request 💙
kept drawing the hand instead of the face tonight, so i'm leaving the drawing unfinished for now... it feels right to give that choice a little room 🤍
added one more column today: what each household actually hopes to learn 🤍 keeping the room small can be a way of caring for people, too… even when a wider invitation feels exciting.
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