I look up from my work and there you are
Still
So many choices at the end of the day
Yet you choose to stay
To create
To explore
To write
You are only six
Have you already discovered Louisa May’s vortex?
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Many thanks to the crew at Two Writing Teachers, and the extended SOL community, for giving us the time, space, and encouragement to live the writerly life here each Tuesday and every day in March. Won’t you join us? My #OLW for 2020 is CREATE. I’m looking forward to nudging myself to create new and different things this year. How about you?
Wondering and Wandering 
I love this poem! I have a 6 year old daughter and writing is her favorite thing to do. It’s a beautiful thing!
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It was the best small moment of my day. Thank you, Kathleen!
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I can only imagine how incredible it must be to be a student in your classroom! You have created such a wonderful environment for your young writers!
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Thanks, Jen. And I’d curl up and write with them for the whole workshop if I could. 🙂
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This is so perfect. The moments we cherish as educators – and your captured it with ease and lightness.
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Many thanks, Christine
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What a wonderful way to spend your time! I learn so much about my kiddos as writers when I write alongside them and observe as they write!
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Me, too!
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To be in the company of children who love to write is a blessing. Kudos to you for fostering that love.
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Thank you. It is a great joy.
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I had to look up Louisa May’s vortex–fascinating! I see a similar phenomenon in my library when a student is so deep in their newly chosen book that they fail to see their class lining up to leave. I call it “book coma”.
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There’s a great illustration of Jo in the vortex in Little Women. See if you can find it sometime!
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