Getting Ready

Leanna and I went to the library last night and got a bunch of books on kindergarten. She's excited so far, I haven't heard her express any fear about it. It's really great that there are so many books out there on the subject to help her get an idea of what to expect. We were reading some of them last night. She impressed me with her eye for detail. She wanted to know what all sorts of things in the illustrations were for. She noticed in one photograph that several chairs were stacked instead of spread out at the table and wanted to know why. In an illustration from Miss Bindergarten gets Ready for Kindergarten (a classic) Leanna wanted to know why that animal was eating it's pencil? Then at the end of the book when a picture showed the classroom finally ready-and there was a jar full of pencils-Leanna commented that they better not give one to that beaver! But how would he write? I love that she notices all that stuff.