Cards

My 4th and 5th graders this year are actually all 4th graders, and nearly all girls. Eleven girls and one boy today - who opted to stay with us since his twin sister was also there. Can you see the mass amount of pink?

So, things run a little differently then they did last year. Smaller (not as many kids 1st hour). Quieter. Stiller. And, much more interested in "projects."

This week, we filled out the review worksheet, went out to the hall to run/hop/skip/gallop two relays with the memory verse, and came back in to make cards for church staff while the other leader led them through the discussion questions. Next week, they've been promised an exploratory adventure to deliver the cards to their appropriate destinations.

Active? Yes. Comparatively? We all but laid down to take a nap.

We did, however, take a very familiar trip to get bandaids for a bloody knee. Because, even when no one falls, we still manage to somehow somehow draw blood. This year, however, there are two of us working with a single small group (myself and a high school senior), so the entire crew does not have to be drug along on every bandaid expedition.

But, I am in love with their hearts that would settle in and work so diligently on cards for people whom they have never met with jobs that they only barely understand. They are full of ideas for cards and cookies and canned food drives, simple "random acts of kindness" that they could use to serve others.

And, they're flat out funny.