This past week I was reminded of how fun it is to look at the world from a kid/student's perspective! Often times, I find it hilarious the things that kids find important, or the ways that they joke, or the way they try to weasel their way out of consequences. They can be so creative when they want to be!
This past week, I went on a field trip to the California Train Museum with the 4th grade class I work with. There is one student in particular that I spend extra time with most days of work, but especially on field trips. Long, long, LOOONGG story short, he and I are pretty close and he has a special place in my heart.
Anyway, back to the field trip... So this one little friend of mine displayed some early signs of being bored with the field trip as he had visited that museum not too long ago. I forget how it came about, but essentially, he asked if he could take a picture with my camera. I responded with a relaxed and casual "Shure" and before I knew it, he is running around taking pictures of EVERYTHING! It is nothing but comical when I think about how his little brain thought that taking pictures of these things was important enough! Here are some of the gems that I got on my camera at the end of the day....
a self portrait, capturing the energy of this excited photographer!
apparently, this mannequin was important... or just really cool looking..... or neither, and was just worthy of a picture to capture his eternal poise.
when looking at the pictures, my photographer friend said "I took this one of you when you weren't looking" well apparently you did, little guy!
This was my personal favorite... I rounded the corner to find the photographer of the day pushing the 2 girls in our group to take a "smiling" picture with this museum docent... I wonder if These docents have ever felt so popular while on the job?
**All the pictures posted are the doing of a 4th grader, not myself!
I was just reminded this day how important, and fun it is to look at the world through the eyes of the kid. One of the things that struck me most, was that at the end of the day when I was walking my little friend out to the front of school, he thanked me for a fun day. He thanked me for letting him use my camera, and for letting him play games on my phone during the down times in the cars. But he also said "Thank you for trusting me with your camera for the day" and I think that was the most important lesson either of us could have enjoyed that day.
No comments:
Post a Comment