The "ahhh" look!

I love the "ahhh" look on kid's faces. It's that look of pure joy that comes the instant they realize and fully grasp what you are saying or teaching. It's that "it clicked" moment. I love, love, love it! Over the years, I've seen many of those "ahhh" moments, but I never get tired of seeing them!

And many times, that "ahhh" look appears with the most simple of things. Such as yesterday in children's choir.

At the beginning of children's choir, we have pictures that we color. The newest trend with my preschoolers and kinder kids are pencils. You see, pencils are different than crayons. They are more grown up. They are the next step up in writing instruments for this age of kids. In addition to that, they can be sharpened, whereas crayons can't.

Yep, sharpened. Once they discovered the sharpening feature that pencils are capable of, it has become a weekly tradition to sharpen pencils during choir. Whether they need it or not. ;) The sharpening of pencils was an "ahhh" moment a few weeks ago, but yesterday was another one with the other end of the pencil: the eraser.

Crayons are the primary writing tools with these kids, so the new thing with pencils is not only the sharpening feature, but also the eraser. This was our conversation:

Sam "What's this?" Pointing to the eraser end of the pencil.
Me "It's an eraser."
Sam "Why?' It's his favorite word that follows just about everything you say! ;)
Me "The eraser lets you erase something that you drew with your pencil."
Sam "Can you erase my nose?" He had pencil marks that created a nose of the guy playing a flute on our coloring sheet.
Me "Yes, now watch. When you use the erase on his nose, it's goes away!"

At the moment that the nose disappeared, his very intent and interested face lit up. Wow!!! What a concept! Erasing anything on the page that was drawn in pencil! You do know what happened next, don't you? Uhh, huh....every single pencil mark on his coloring page was now being visited by the eraser.

Lol! Who would have ever thought that a pencil could bring such pure joy?!