I don’t know if my grandmother ever contributed any stories of her own to newspapers while teaching back during her teaching days, but I definitely know from my own personal experience that kids can and will say things that make you smile on a daily basis. It’s probably why she was drawn to cutting out the ‘funnies’ from the newspapers.

Before I share Grandma’s clipping for this week, I wanted to share a bit about our week during storytime. As a regular activity, we talk about stuff related to the story of the day and I have kept track of several of these over time. This past couple weeks, we had an Insect Theme goin’ on and the question I posed to them went like this….

“If you found a beehive on the ground, what would you do? Why?”

• Owen(age4) “Put it back up–Because the bees will be sooo happy”
• Hunter(age 4) “Go in the house–Because they will sting you.”
• Owen yes we have 2 Owens (age 4) “Don’t be around it–Because they will sting you”
• Bella (age 2) “Be afraid! –I don’t know & my daddy afraid & my mommy afraid!”
• Jonathan (age 2) “Run away to my house, no a different house–Because I don’t like bees!”
• Miles (age 5) “Scare it away — Cause I don’t like bees.”
• Hudson (age 5) ” I would pick it up and put it back and wait for more bees to come back — I don’t know why”
• Ben (age 7) “Leave it alone & walk around it — So I don’t get stung.”
• Sawyer (age 7) ” Leave it alone so I don’t get stung and walk off”
  

So to reassure everyone out there, we had further discussion of how to handle this situation and also about the benefits bees provide to our environment. In addition, I just want to say that the next generation is going to be OK. They have empathy, caring hearts and are wonderful little people! So, if this didn’t make you smile, maybe the funnies coming up will…..Have a wonderful rest of your Sunday!!