Robot Skeletons
{present day news for those of you getting thrown about my all the time-shifting}
Holden is about to enter is final year of preschool at a place down the road from us. We love this place for encouraging kids to be kids and teaching lessons of respect and kindness. And we really love that it’s a half mile from our house with hours that extend to 11pm one night a month so we can have a date.
As the upperclassmen at preschool, Holden and his peers are allowed to suggest their own class name and vote on it. They learn a little about choosing their own destinies and democracy in the process. The class names have all been animals (albeit sometimes rather fanciful animals like Sparkly Rainbow Pandas)
He was a Dolphin last year and is a Giraffe this year.
The names from the other kids fit the other patterns pretty well (sea turtles, bobcats, bats, penguins) with some minor deviations (princess whales) until they got to Holden. His idea was the ROBOT SKELETONS.
A week later, the teachers checked back in with the kids to see if they wanted to keep their original ideas or change their minds.
Holden told his teacher Rose, “I have 8 ideas but I’d like to stick with Robot Skeletons.”
As a next step, the teachers found images to represent each of the choices. Here’s Holden’s approved Robot Skeleton mascot.
Robot Skeleton as preschool mascot
Boys will be boys?? Love the mechanical fantasy combination!Did it get the final go-ahead?
We won’t know the final choice for a few more days. End of the month at the latest.
I’m very impressed. Has Holden been listening to Tenacious D? Has Holden been perusing the finer Engineering Schools in the country?
We know you’re all robots and we don’t care, Tenacious D,… We reign supreme… like a Burrito Supreme… Like a cutlas supreme.
….classic Holden.
I’d love to know his other 8 ideas, probably equally creative!