One Day in Kindergarten, by Cora

One day in Kindergarten, we had just come in from recess and someone noticed a queer smell. Everyone paused briefly to try to sniff out where the scent was coming from. The teacher tried to get us under control, but if you have ever been around kindergarteners, you know that once they start, you can never get them to stop again. Eventually we found the culprit. A boy had stepped in dog poop during recess. “Eww!” we cried. The boy sat down and started crying. Mrs. F, the teacher, helped him get up and took him to the office to wipe his shoe off while one of the paras tried to track down where he had been walking and wipe up the poop. Meanwhile, all of us must have been going crazy-hiding under tables to get away from the foul stench and covering our noses with our sleeves. The smell was awful. It smelled like burnt something and chocolate lilies. Fortunately, the day was almost over so we waited for a little while in the room next door until our parents came.