What Are Friends?

 Our class is learning about the letter L, friendship, family and love this week.  To me, they all go together and take forever to truly understand.  Making friends and keeping them takes a lifetime of learning and our little class is working all of this out.  We are so sweet and loving and are doing our very best to be a good friend to everyone in our class.  Today we had a special guest in our room.  She has been helping out at our school for a little while but is working on a college project that requires her to do some service learning hours.....so we are so blessed to have her helping us.  You can hardly see her "squeezed" in the back but that is because everyone wanted to sit on her lap.

 It is amazing to see how much these children grow throughout the year and to see God at work in their lives.  Every little hurt feeling or "boo boo" impacts these precious faces.  No one wants to have a friend be sad or hurt or mad or left out or anything..... so this is how we do it.  We work on being a "bucket filler" and really try to lift each other up.  We cheer each other on when we are doing our best work or when we are having a "not so great" day.  Life just seems to be so much better when everyone accepts that we are really a "work in progress."  God is the potter and we are His clay.  Mrs. Laurie & I just have the privilege to see your children learn to work these things out on their own.  Being four is hard work and learning all of these hard things will take many years of love and support - we just do our best to guide them in the right direction.  All with God's hand leading the way.

I LOVE our little poster about friendship and what friends do...they "be nice."  They "love each other."  They "clean messes up."  They "dress alike" and "spin around together."  My favorite is that friends "hold hands."  Sometimes that is all we really need.... a friend to hold hands with and let us know that everything is going to be okay!  Happy Friend Day!!!!