The Most Magnificent Thing
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“Can you read this for me, please?” Z requested after snack time.
But Pauline said that she will get the chance to read a book to everybody, so she asked us to pack away the books.
Pauline read, “The Most Magnificent Thing” by Ashley Spires. It was a story about a girl who had her dog best friend as her assistant, as she thought of a plan to make the most magnificent thing. She gathered her supplies, and she set off to tweaking, turning, hammering, and turning— nothing she did turn out to be magnificent. She soon became mad– and then from her furious tweaking and turning and hammering, she pinched her finger. The pain started in her finger traveling all the way to her brain and she EXPLODED! She soon became sad and disappointed that she can’t do anything right. When she calmed down, she was able to think about what she did wrong– and some things that she liked. She had another plan, and she put together all the things she liked best. Ta– da! She was able to make the most magnificent thing!
“What do you think is it?” Pauline asked.
“It’s a sidecar for the dog!” H said.
“So that the dog has somewhere to sit,” Z added. They were right– the girl made a tiny sidecar for the dog, so that when the girl goes on the scooter, the dog can go with her. Amazing, right?
Pauline asked us if there is something we had created before that was magnificent as what the girl had created.
“I didn’t I want to make some trees,” Z said. Pauline asked what materials she wants to use.
“I want to make a tree with pompoms and leaves,” Z said. The teachers’ eyes lit up, and it seemed like they themselves have an idea for something magnificent. Pauline then showed us a canvas in A4 size, and she said that our end– of– the– year party is coming up soon, and maybe we can have our own Petals Class museum! We can each have a canvas, and we can paint on it something about what we always talked about in the class for the whole school year– how we need to take care of the Earth, and how we need to respect others. Here are some of the things that our friends said– because we want it to be a surprise (There’s no shortage of surprises in Petals Class), we’re going to keep it anonymous!
“I already know what I want– I want to take care of the ocean. I want to use pompoms.”
“I want to take care of a stealer. A stealer is a thing– a very big thing– and it can take care of itself. When there’s a big monster, the stealer can take care of itself. A stealer comes from the sky. I can protect everybody. I want to use a paintbrush with yellow and yellow.”
“I want to protect the elephant (car). I want to make it with paper.”
“I want to paint Daddy.”
“Plants.”
“I want to take care of the ocean. I want to use real sand.”
“I want the butterfly dance! There!” *Points to the 4 stages of a butterfly picture on the wall*
“Fish.”
Four friends said that they want to take care of the “Butterfly.”
We’re all excited about what we’re going to do, and we can’t wait for everyone to see it!
Pauline asked us if we wanted to go to the park today– or the temple. A magnificent idea— the temple! We felt like we haven’t been to the temple in the longest time. We brought our rings, and played under the cool shade of the trees. We really love being in “our” temple.
In the morning, we had our fire drill, and we did such a good job. We were all in the middle of spraying on bug spray and putting on smocks– so some of us decided to not put it on; some of our friends have their arms in the wrong holes. What mattered was we were all able to follow the teachers in a line going downstairs as they calmly announced, “Fire! Fire!” We made sure that our masks were covering our nose and mouth.
That’s all for today– how about you? How was your day?
Love,
All the magnificent children in Petals Class
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