Yesterday I volunteered in Savannah's classroom to help with an art project. I was in charge of another project a couple of months ago. I planned a project including paint, thinking that it would be a bit messy, but a lot of fun. It was more like a lot messy and a little bit of fun. And the end results were okay. Not bad, but not amazing pieces of art.
This month I decided to do something a little less messy. I figured that cutting construction paper would be easy, (clean), and fun. I am amazed at the broad range of cutting skills that the first graders had. We were cutting out hearts. I showed them all how to fold their paper, draw a half heart on the center fold, and then cut it out. Well, we had a few kids who had been cutting hearts for years, and others who had never cut a heart out in their life.
This little project only took a minute or two for the faster cutters, and over a half an hour for some of the kids with less practice. Wow. I had not planned on something to keep those fast little kids busy while the other kids were still working on their project. Thank goodness their sweet teacher jumped in and got some more colored paper, so that the kids could make more to take home with them. Whhhheeew! I was a bit frazzled at the end of the project. And I spent less than an hour with these kids.
Teachers happily deal with this all day long.
To all those wonderful people who made the choice to become teachers, and thrive in that environment, my hat goes off to you.
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