I went to bed last night awash in the glow of… having no further goals for the rest of the school year.
Oh, come on, JediBoy’s only 5 1/2. This year is “kindergarten” and we don’t have to report anyway. I didn’t have a lot of well-thought-out goals or plans for the year, because I knew that traveling to Guatemala and bringing home BabyGirl would be both educational and disruptive, and it has been both to the extreme! So I’m not here to boast about finishing a boxed curriculum early or checking everything off a massive to-do list.
But it seems that in the back of my head, I had some kind of evil little judge telling me whether or not I had done enough for JediBoy this year. And last night, that little voice was silenced for at least six months!
JediBoy was curled up in a chair in the living room, perusing one of his Christmas gifts - the book What’s Inside a Castle. He called me over and said, “On this page, Mom, I’m supposed to find the chapel and the school.” Here, he points to a room with an altar in it. “Now, this is the chapel, but I’m not sure which of these is the school.” He points to a room with people sitting at a table looking at books and a room with three kids playacting as knights and horses. I told him I guessed the room with the books was what the author probably meant to be the school.
I was walking away when the conversation caught up with me. I turned back and asked him, “Wait a minute. How did you know the word chapel ?” To which he replied…
“Oh Mom. I read everything. I am a READER.”
Cue the glow of satisfaction. Can you really ask for anything more out of the “kindergarten” year than to have a boy who is curious and active, loving and interesting, who adores getting books for Christmas and proclaims himself a READER? I can’t think of anything better, and if he doesn’t “learn” anything else that’s documentable for the next six months, I’m still going to be satisfied and relaxed. I love my little READER.
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