A spontaneous thing this week at School:
Bella and her classmates were all doing art, and Bella issued a challenge that they should all do pictures of monsters/aliens. So everyone did, except for some kids who wanted to do other things, so Bella said "ok, it's just anything you want to do, but it's a grand contest". Everyone nominated Bella to be the judge, so the kids all gave Bella their art work, and she brought it home for judging.
She was worried about ranking them first to last, but said not to worry, her piece would take last place because it wouldn't be fair otherwise. But then she got the idea that instead of ranking them, she'd find something that each picture was "best" of - most colorful, craziest eyes, most hearts, longest tongue, and she'd do the awards that way.
She spent a lot of time coming up with the awards, and brought her first batch of judged works back to school.
But instead of making a big deal out the contest, she just put the results into the kid's take home shelves, for them to find at the end of the day.
And of course, everyone is giving her more and more artwork for the contest, and Bella loves being asked her opinion.
There are a few things I love:
1) Bella organized this.
2) Bella decided to accentuate the positive and look for the good in everything
3) Bella didn't want to use this for any glory - she just popped them into the boxes. She doesn't even know what people's reactions are.
This whole thing just has made me so happy and proud of my girl.
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