Tomorrow is Eden's last day of gan this year. Wednesday she has one day of vacation (wow!) and then Thursday starts daycamp.
She came home today with 2 big packets of "avodot" - her year's work. Two big packets of fours drawn over and over, and samech's and ayin's. Lines drawn from the picture of two girls to the number 2. Etc.
Eden worked hard on these. She's proud of them - as am I! I can't believe my girl knows how to write a 2 and 5 perfectly. But do I really need to keep them? How much of this stuff can I keep? I throw out most of her drawings week to week...even the good stuff she does at home. She can go through an entire notebook in a couple of sittings. Really, I can't keep all of it. I know that she gets disappointed when I throw them out, so I try to do it when she's not looking. Sometimes I make her help me clean up the mess (especially when she's been doing cut art), and it feels a little sadistic. Making an artist throw away her afternoon's work. But really, its trash.
Two whole notebooks of work though. Can I really throw it out? How can I keep it? How can I set that sort of precedent? Will she be forever angry at me for not appreciating her efforts? What's the "done" thing here?
I Lost My Swim Meet
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1 comment:
It can be hard to figure out at first what to keep and what to toss. With my kids, it has been more important to acknowledge the work on the front end and it seemed easy to rotate displayed work and put it "away" some place. More often than not that place was a pile somewhere that eventually got put in the recycling bin.
Natalie recently made a cubist style drawing for her class study on the subject and did such a good job that I am going to frame and hang it.
Still, the fridge and front door are still the Main Exhibition Special Spaces (MESS)
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