The Arda kindergarten AU meme

[durinsdaughter]

~ Arda nursery, kindergarten and pre-school ~


[source]

1. You are a kid! Maybe you are a toddler in nursery or already in pre-school, or anywhere in between, but you are a kid who comes here more or less regularly, interacts with other kids and the teachers and the nurse and is dropped off in the morning and picked up sometime later during the day.
2. You are an adult! Maybe you are a teacher, or doing an internship, or you are a parent or older sibling picking up their kid, or the nurse or whatever an adult would do in such a place...
...of course you can change which one your muse is depending on whom they thread with.

And as for scenarios - you can of course do whatever you want, but a few ideas:
I. The first day in kindregarten. Being left behind by mommy or daddy, encountering new friends, so many things to discover...
II. Nap time! Maybe you just need to tell your friend this story before falling asleep. Or your teddy has gotten lost. And as for adults, oftentimes the parents will be present for the first few days of nursery to ease their child into things. Don't glare too many daggers at that other parents who is easing their child into the situation at the same time, you might make a child cry... Cuddling with their child is a much nicer option, yes?
III. Playground! Maybe you build a sandcastle together, or maybe you kick each others sandcastle down, who knows? Or maybe you are in the crafts room, or in the dolls corner, or you are having a class...
IV. Uh oh. Something isn't going too smoothly, and you have to mend things with another child or explain yourself to a teacher or maybe discuss a case with another staff member, or even call in the parents...
V. Field trip! Or maybe it is some holiday, or a birthday/conception day is happening in your group, or or or...

Comments

[lightcatcher]

[For the moment, he assumes that this must be one of his two youngest sons (it's bad to have your kids in your own group, he's been told before, but so far he's seen no issues arise from it so he saw no reason to not have Ambarussa and Ambarto put into another group) and just lets her use him as a shield, continuing to dry the dishes and stack them on the table next to him.

He only really looks down at the redhead when the child is not joined by a second one even after half a minute has passed.] Where is your brother?


[ooc: Let's assume that she's new and in another group in the same building, so he'd have reason to not yet know her?]

[sylvanguard]

[ooc, is fine!]

[She looked up to him, eyes wide but puzzled.] I don't have a brother!

[She steps back from his legs, forgetting that she is supposed to be hidding so that he can get a better look at her.]

[lightcatcher]

[His eyesbrows go up at the sight of her - this is the first time that he sees a redhead elf that is not related to him. He quickly reigns the reaction in, though, putting down the plate and crouching down to not tower over the child so much.]

You are new here, aren't you?

[sylvanguard]

I'm new! [She smiles to him suddenly shy.]

[lightcatcher]

What group are you in?

[Not to send her back there directly, but to know who would be looking for her, and where to eventually return her to should she be lost.]

[sylvanguard]

Group three, I think? [She sort of remembers her group. It certainly wasn't two. She hadn't been playing much attention.]

I'm playing hide an' seek.

[lightcatcher]

And your name would be...?

[They're also here to get some manners into the kids, after all, and teaching them to introduce themselves is a thing.]

[sylvanguard]

[Oh yeah, that.] You a stranger? I'm not suppost to tell my name to strangers or dwarves! Except Kili. I like Kili. We play together all the time and he gave me a cookie from his house!

[lightcatcher]

No, I'm a teacher.

[And okay, Kíli, he knows the boy. It's really hard to not at least know about him with how much trouble he causes.] You and Kíli are friends?

[sylvanguard]

[She nods happily.] M' Tauriel!

[lightcatcher]

It's nice to meet you, Tauriel. [He smiles down at the child, always softer with children than with adults, even if that really isn't hard.]

I'm Fëánaro, teaching class one.

[sylvanguard]

Oh hi! Uhm Fëánaro. [She makes the effort to say it, but her tongue get s a little twisted in the end and she sort of butchers it. Really, names from her neck of the woods are a lot easier to say.]

[lightcatcher]

[He'll teach her how to say it properly in time.]

Fëánaro.

[But they get interrupted by the kid that Tauriel was hiding from finally catching up with her, and flinging themselves at the redhead.]