During a warmup, I'm telling a story where we are pretending to grow like trees. I tell the children to reach tall towards the ceiling and wave their "branches" in the wind. One little boy, age 3, immediately stops. "That's not a tree - this is a tree," he states as he strikes the tree pose typically used in yoga. How does he know that?
A few minutes before class ends, I am leading the children through a cool down. I say, "show me how much you love your parents" (to get them to stretch their arms to the side). Powell, a round faced preschooler with a wild mop of platinum blond hair, says, "I love my parents more than God loves them". His sincerity in the statement is mostly what made me giggle.
Today I was teaching the children sports drills. I had the children follow up their jumping jacks with one legged hops. Noah, a 4-year-old with a prosthetic leg, gets the most exaggerated smile I've ever seen. His eyes become wide as he exclaims, "I'm made extra special for hopping!" He couldn't wait to show all of us how he could hop.
Gotta love children.
3 comments:
HAHAHA, that's great! Just wait until you have some of your own, you'll be laughing yourself silly! Trust me!
Oh that is sooo cute! I love the one where the kid says he is made special for hopping!
Hey Laura...You should post a picture of all the painting you've been doing. I want to get ideas for my house....
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