Flower Book

For the last week Chloe has been creating a 'Flower Book'. It was inspired by J who gave her the idea but also to do with her class studying non-fiction books and how to look up information. She stuck all the pages together by herself and then carefully made a contents page and numbered all the pages. I didn't know she was capable of working it all out by herself but she did.

Next Chloe sat on her climbing frame peering into all of the neigbours' gardens to look for inspiration. She copied the various types of flowers and also looked up more exciting ones in a book I have on 'Small Gardens'. She coloured them in and then wrote a sentence for each one (they were quite funny; eg - 'this flower is different because it doesn't have yellow in the middle, it has brown'. She told me what she wanted to write and I wrote the sentences on a separate piece of paper for her to copy.

Last night I sent her to bed with the paper with the sentences on, her flower book and some pens. When I checked her a couple of hours later she had fallen asleep with most of the sentences copied out and one half completed before she fell asleep with the pen next to her, gradually soaking into the pillow case. Chloe also had a considerable amount of pen on her face, arms and knees! I didn't mind at all.

I am sharing this story partly because I am proud of her project, but also because it sums up my little Chloe so well. She is a dreamer who loves to create things, especially when they are beautiful, like flowers. She also has a desire to please and make people proud of her; a big part of her motivation for this book is to take it into school and show her teachers. I know this can be a dangerous personality trait but it's also lovely. I love that she likes to make people happy and that she would work so hard on something of her own creation.