"We Need to Decorate!"

While walking down the hallway back to the Pine classroom, E noticed snowflakes hanging from the ceiling in the front office. 

"Look, they made snowflakes! We need to decorate!"

"We can make snowflakes for our room."

"Yeah let's put them where the pine cones are."

"I think we can use cotton balls to show the snow."

"And paper! Let's cut them too."

In our short walk down the hallway the kids came up with a plan to replace our pine cones hanging in our room with snowflakes. We immediately got to work. 

The kids worked diligently as they dobbed, folded, and cut out snowflakes to decorate our room. Each child seemed to take a different approach. 

B decided he needed to cut out his snowflake first before making it blue, where as C wanted to dob before he cut. 

"C is decorating it and then cutting it and I am painting it after I cut it."

"Yeah it's not the same."

"I think we should cut before we color them."

C disagreed and continued to work. 

At the end of the day the kids took a look at the newly created snowflakes. 

"They are all different!"

"But they are all snowflakes."

What an amazing realization to see. Even though they all created different kinds of snowflakes, the kids were able to recognize that they were still snowflakes. A lesson that applies to a lot of different areas of life. 

At our end of the day meeting, it only seemed appropriate to make sure our snowflakes worked like real snowflakes. Check it out!