Today was the day of the month that I get to help out at Veg's school. I was only able to stay an hour this time, but was thrilled to be asked to help make their Valentine bags...
As always, I was able to observe some of the Elementary kids in action while working on my task. And as always I enjoy what I see. One of the other helping Mom's brought her baby (just old enough to begin walking) and this little guy made quite a mess of some things that he was given to play with.
The Mom quickly diverted his attention to something else and by the time two minutes had passed she went to clean up his mess, and it was gone... All Clean. As if little elves had come in and taken care of everything.
Only in this case it was the Elementary kids. They all stopped what they were doing when they saw the mess on the floor and scurried over to clean it up. With no one asking or telling them to, they just volunteered and worked together to get it all put away. Then sat down, quietly got back to work. Had I not seen this with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed they'd ever left their work spaces.
One of them was busy working on a Cross Stitch, another was busy sketching a statue, Others making cards, and one came in to play instruments. The multi-purpose room is such an eventful place for kids to learn what ever their minds desire.
And I'm so lucky to watch a small part of that each month while helping out at the same time.