Every spring, just inside the doorways of our school’s preschool hallway, you can hear a collective gasp as Pre-K parents hold their breath: it’s Homes Report Season. Sounds innocuous, right? The students study homes, visit a variety of unusual homes (a dormitory, a cabin, a trip to Home Depot to make a bird house and learn about wiring and plumbing and roofing…oh my!). What could be difficult about a Homes Report? Ask the family who draws the White House. Or a Mews. Or the Ndebele Painted Homes in Africa. These kids make everything from House Boats to Sears Catalog Homes. I have dreams we draw the White House and I get lost in a maze of sugar cubes, while Kelly sits idly by, shoving her face full of our building materials.
Kelly drew Log Cabin, which is akin to winning the Homes Report Lottery. How hard is it to help her learn the home style she memorized from the Little House series? Kelly looked at the picture on the Lincoln Logs box and built this little pioneer vignette, if you will. Greg hot glued the entire thing together. She had trouble choosing her report details, and we nearly fell out of our chairs giggling when she told us log cabins of present day are glued together, but Laura and Mary Ingalls had to use mud because glue hadn’t been invented yet. For the first few practices, she talked mostly about the cows and the dog. But her teachers swear she did a great job on her report. Those beautiful sweet women. Someone should build them a chalet made of sugar.
5 responses to “Winning The (Homes Report) Lottery”
Kelly did do a great job! We (the teachers) had to hold our giggles when she explained the Ingall’s home was put together with mud and her’s is modern and put together with hot glue.
Hmmmm….I guess I missed the chapter in the book where Laura talks about how her outhouse is built out of pink Legos. Hahaha
I knew it! I knew she’d have to say something about glue. She’s so literal! When we told her we’d glue her’s together, she immediately deduced that glue was an important component on all log cabin construction. Which reminds me, when you assigned her log cabin, she thought we’d be building a life size version. LITERAL.
Lydia…that’s either a camper or a mobile home. That was the handywork of Amelia, I believe. Kelly’s is the cabin in the front right corner. We’ve got homes EVERYWHERE. 40 reports…no joke.
When the family who inhabits the log cabin gets a hitch in their giddyup and hears the West callin’, tell them they can load up E’s covered wagon, located conveniently on the same hallway table as Kelly’s log cabin. That covered wagon was lovingly modeled after the cover illustration from Little House on the Prairie. We looked at it for inspiration, but really, only E needed to look at it, because I could have drawn that thing FROM MEMORY. God bless your soul, Laura Ingalls Wilder. Pack up Ma’s china doll for the mantelpiece and HEAD WEST!