From Denny - Friday Morning

The creativity and curiosity of the children here is, for me, renewing and energizing. The other day, I pulled masking tape from one of the walls we had painted. To make disposal easier, I formed it into a softball-sized ball. At the trash barrel, I noticed two of the cook's preschool children watching me. On impulse, I threw the ball toward them, and almost instantly, we were playing soccer catch, kicking the ball back and forth, sometimes including older students as they walked past. Squeals and laughter, mine mingled in... What fun! And yesterday, we had finished painting the walls of the science room, and were sketching out a mural that David wants to do. The model is a representation of chemical bonding, so we had clusters of circles traced on the walks. Students drifted in, the first time they had done so, wanted to know what we were doing. We showed them the model of the drawing we were working from and they became very animated asking questions, offering suggestions and generally just engaging us in discussing the project. They are very excited to see it in finished form. I think I will be as amazed as they are at the finished product.