The Po Show

Second Grade Recap

I'm cleaning out the corner of the dining room that houses the overflowing bin of artwork and other school-created memorabilia that the kids bring home. For years now I've just been tossing more and more things into the bin, or letting Tessa add more things to the bin. I do try and determine what "deserves" to be saved, since if I kept every scrap of paper that Tessa brought home from school, or created here at home, we would have been forced out onto the curb long, long ago. I do this culling surreptitiously, for Tessa is very attached to all of her creations, and more than once I have been busted when she found some masterpiece in the recycling.

But today I decided that I had to clear out the bin and put things into the kids' file boxes, which house the treasures deemed untossable, that must be kept for posterity. As I started, though, I realized that I first had to cull Tessa's file box a bit, because there are things in there that seemed to make the cut back in preschool, but now really are recognizable as lesser-tier.

But anyway, I found her writer's notebook from this past school year. The last entry is entitled "Second Grade Memories" and definitely deserves to be immortalized here on my blog:

"I had a great second grade. I had butterflies in my stomach on the first day. My class and I took many trips. My favorite was Seussical. I made a lot of new friends. My class and I were even parents! Our children were mealworms, which turned into darkling beetles. Sofia and I were partners. My class also wrote writing pieces. My favorite was the all-abouts. I wrote All About Prairie Dogs. I had a great school year and I hope next year is great, too."

See, I would have never remembered that they raised darkling beetles in second grade, and that apparently some of them were my grandchildren. Memorabilia is bulky, but irreplaceable.