Little Helpers

This morning it was not raining. Karen had the children that were not in school outside. Our groundskeeper was cutting grass. He does this with a machetti. I am sure this is backbreaking work. Karen brought the children around to where Dennis was working. She got brooms and rakes and they began working.

Some were sweeping the sidewalk. Some were raking the grass and some were putting the raked grass in the wheelbarrow to be hauled off. And some were picking flowers and berries. Fernando and Daniela were, by far, raking the biggest piles of grass.

Sweet Doris is getting pretty good with a broom. She would sweep a ways and then sweep over it again. But, for her, using a rake was a completely different story. While using a rake and a broom are similar motions, they are not exactly the same. Doris was trying to use the rake in the way she does the broom and she had the rake upside down. No matter how many times it was turned over, she kept turning over and trying to use it upside down. She did not get too much raked that way, but she never quit trying.

They had so much fun, they all wanted to come back and work some more after naptime.

Terri