Kindergarten

Kindergarten was made for little girls... the coloring, cutting, pasting, creating...

While volunteering in Emme's class the other day I was able to observe the children's' artwork. Emmry had drawn a picture of a flower on a bed of grass with a rainbow spanning across the sky. How bliss! I could have laid on that grass for hours, smelt the flower, and gazed in awe at the rainbow. Where is Mary Poppins when you need her?

Then I came across her friend's picture. This friend is a boy. His picture reminded me so much of Braden's kindergarten artwork. Not that their pictures were not wonderful in their own way... perhaps they will be great contemporary artists. Their pictures had the sporadic quality of a rushed hand and a mind full of the upcoming recess... of balls, sand, slides and swings. Perhaps just a little less attention to detail.

I could see from Emmry's picture that she loves kindergarten. She loves the coloring, cutting, pasting and creating. She loves learning to read and write in her journal. And though I am missing her, it is fun to see her in her element. She has truly found her calling in life... kindergarten student!