Back from Break!

What a wonderful day it was in the classroom today. Today being our first day back after a very rainy/snowy spring break, one never knows how things might go. But the children were all obviously very pleased to be back in their little world at school. There were two individuals who were, in contrast, quite displeased to find themselves back at school at the moment they were manually placed across the threshold by their firm, but loving parents. These two little guys were some of the busiest little beavers in school today! They found one beloved activity after another and became deeply absorbed in each of them. All of the children were thoroughly involved in their work today.

Two of our oldest children worked with deep concentration on Practical Life tasks and repeated them many times right after lunch. In fact, all of the afternoon children fell to working right after lunch as if they had a hunger of a different sort to satisfy. A little boy who often persistently resists the whole idea of "going to work" was very active in his self-direction today. Another child who prefers to observe and socialize was nose down in his own business this morning. Yet another little girl came to me to ask me for some ideas about what she could do. She took my first suggestion and never looked back. She was on a roll after that! And the readers! They read, read, read! How wonderful that our library mom had supplied our library with fresh books for their voracious appetites.

My point? Well, I'm just saying it's nice, that's all. It felt great today to see that everyone clearly enjoyed being back at school. Now... tomorrow it will begin to rain again. Someone will get on my nerves. There may be strife, discontent, mayhem. But for today.....today was a good day.