Presidents

A few weeks ago Elizabeth's class learned about Presidents.  She brought home the following project.

"If I were president of the United States I would ... make sure people stayed safe."  I was pretty impressed with that answer!  Although I liked her answer, someone might have suggested tackling the issue of taxes ;)  The drawing is quite interesting.  When she brought it home it had no arms, just the head and the legs sticking down.  I asked her about it and told her to look at our bodies and notice that our legs and arms are attached to our core/middle.  Well since the legs were already in place there was really only one place to add the arms - coming out of the sides of the head.  This by the way is a self portrait.  Being the perfectionist that she is, she insisted on adding the arms.  So I got the crayons out for her and we had arms and hands and fingers added.  Great!  Then she tells me the blue circle (under the head) is the underwear and is just giggling.  I am in the midst of preparing lunch so I am in the kitchen but not sitting next her.  I come back to admire the work and she has added this blue line coming out the underwear.  She then informs me with even more giggling that this is the bottom (which is a term we use in general for our private area).  So yes, I am quite certain that my little girl drew a penis on her presidential self portrait!  Perhaps she is having an identity crisis with having no female presidents??? No, I am sure I am  reading way too much into that.  I think it is much more likely that she just thought it was funny to draw private body parts, given the laughing and smirks on her face. I am just really thankful she choose to make her artistic additions at home and not at school!

When we watched the inauguration ceremonies I wasn't sure she was really understanding who the President was or what he is responsible for, but perhaps she is begining to grasp the concept.  Today when we were getting into the car there was a coin laying on the floor board.  She asked who was on it and I told her it was George Washington.  She said, "Is he kind of dead?"  "Yep, he is dead, he was a president." She then proceeded to tell me that she knew all about him and that she had learned that in school, but then asked "Did I go to school on President's Day?" I think she may be confusing the actual holiday with the day that they talked about presidents at school.  Apparently she took away that dead presidents get to be on money!  Oh my the inner workings of a 4 year old brain!