One reason I love teaching kindergarten

One reason I love teaching kindergarten is seeing the change in students from the fall to the spring.  For example, here's a student's writing from September 30, 2011:

Here's the same student from May 22, 2012:

Who knew that teaching kindergarten would turn out to be such an "osum Ideya"?

"Mr. Graham, I did weed!"

One day, one of the kindergartners in my reading group ran up to me, SUPER excited about something.

"Mr. Graham!  Mr. Graham!  I did WEED!" she exclaimed, looking totally pleased with herself.

"H'okay, Katelyn..." I replied, thinking furiously.  "How did you do that?"

"Mr. Graham!" she said, holding up her reading bag.  "I took my weeding bag home!"

Ohhhhhhhhhh, riiiiight.