There's an extraordinary difference in the amount of paperwork that the kids bring home each day in their backpacks.  Martin sometimes has a single slip of paper, sometimes just an empty folder.  In contrast, Sophie's bag is filled to the brim with papers every single day - some tucked into a folder, others smashed into wadded up bunches at the bottom of her bag.  In Kindergarten, they are PRODUCERS.  Dozens of worksheets and cutting projects and glued together shapes and sight words and story boards are produced - and all of that in the first half hour of each day. 

A few weeks ago I noticed a drawing in her bag.  The drawings always catch my eye because it tells me a bit more about what she's thinking and how she looks at things. 


So I asked her about it.  "Sophie, I like that drawing. Is it a chicken?"

"No," she told me, "It's my art teacher."