O has a monthly calendar of brief daily assignments to complete for kindergarten. In honor of the upcoming Martin Luther King Day, one of this week's assignments was "Talk about Martin Luther King. What is a dream that you have?" After we discussed the MLK video they had watched in class, I asked O about his dreams.
O's initial response: "To play Super Mario!"
Me: "OK. But do you have any bigger dreams than that? Maybe something about everyone? Or about the world? Not just about you and videogames?"
After a thoughtful pause, O said: "I dream that people would stop polluting the oceans, to save the sea animals! So all the sea animals would be happy!"
C, who is studying water availability and conservation in second grade, chimed in: "I dream that everyone would have clean drinking water without having to walk more than 2 miles to get it!"
Now that's more like it!
you could have some world changers on your hand!
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