#225 "Coloring The Sky" By Susan Pearl

Imagine a teacher in a first grade classroom.
The students have bright shiny faces and paper and crayons in front of them. the students are going to color a sky and they are going to decide how everyone should color the sky.
The teacher says, "Today we are going to color the sky.  How would you like for us to color the sky?"
One student says," I think the sky should be blue."
Another students says excitedly, "I think the sky should be blue and white.  I think the white clouds look like polka dots or flufy pictures in the sky."
Another student says, "I think the sky should be a beautiful pearl gray."
"How about," exclaims another student,"grey and blue and white?"
"Let's color the sky many colors like light pinks and dark pinks and shades of purple.  It can be a sunrise sky," suggested another student.
"How about  coloringing the sky reds and golds?  It can be a sunset sky,"" said another student.
"I know," said an enthusiastic student, "I think the sky should be colored black with  tiny silver stars."
The students waited for instruction from the teacher on how to color the sky.
The teacher said," You all get to draw your favorite colors for the sky.  Isn't it wonderful that everyone gets to have his or her own favorite colors and it really is like that for each one to see and enjoy?"
A student said," The sky is really neat."  Another student said loudly, "Wow!"
The teacher smiled because she knew she had accomplished her task as a teacher and the students now had a new appreciation for the beautiful different colors of the sky as seen through their own eyes and, also, through the eyes of others, too.
That was quite a lesson for the students to learn that day.  A lesson that there's more than one way to color a sky and each way is right.