What ABOUT school?
I couldn't help but think of the myriads of 4 year old sitting in "kindergarten prep" all day long with the average 15 minutes of outside play time. This is the most incredibly beautiful time of the year, and little children should be out using all of their senses, all of the day, soaking all of it up.
BUT... that doesn't mean no time for ABC's.
In fact, while I was lazing about the beach concentrating on the hunt for the perfect shell (which I never found), Zach discovered that when you take the broken tail of a horseshoes crab and pop it on the tip of a common seagull feather... VOILA! A classic quill pen! He decided he wanted to practice his writing on the beach. So he used a flat piece of driftwood as his eraser/ Zamboni. Then he declared that he would only be writing the names of famous pirates, scoundrels, and sea captains.
This is Zach writing "AHAB", as in Captain Ahab of Moby Dick.
He framed in sticks and shells his favorite of them all. Captain Bligh (he spelled it phonetically) from his new favorite book Mutiny On The Bounty.
Now that's what we call school!
2 comments:
C - look at all of Z's admirers!! From all over the world - how cool is that!?! I love all the flags and seeing what link brought them over :)
I love your version of school - I wouldn't be surprised if you opened up an alternative school and excelled at it :)
The pictures are so beautiful, but you have such a handsome subject, so it's easy to see why :)
Thanks D! I don't think I can handle more than one kid, so no new schools coming from me ;)
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