The Star of the Day

Guest post by Joan today, here's her account of the adventure she took Jesse on this morning.

Today was Jesse's first day attending Tot's Reading at the Public Library. As soon as we went in, Jesse made himself right at home. He immediately went over to a little table, hauled a chair out for himself and began colouring. When I told him it was story time, he proceeded to the room all on his own. The teacher asked the tots to sit on a blanket and Jesse promptly obliged her, again all on his own. The three other tots were sitting with their moms but our Jessebear was totally independent. He took part in everything: sang the opening and closing songs and did all the actions, listened to the three stories, waited his turn to open the flaps on the books, answered questions, and made all the appropriate animal sounds. When it was time to do colouring, he marched up to the table and got right down to business. At the end of the session, he thanked the teacher and said good bye.

Then he chose three more books in the main part of the children's section and sat up with me while I read them. One of the books was the story of Pocahantas and he enjoyed every word. I think the librarian was impressed with our Jesse because she asked me to check with his parents to see if they would be interested in having both Jesse and Oliver participate in an early childhood literacy initiative. From what I observed today, I think it is reasonable to say that two year old Jesse could fit in well with any  kindergarten class. Precious!

Here's the star himself a few weeks ago 'washing' dishes, it's unrelated but what's a post without this face!