WWFLWD? What would Frank Lloyd Wright Do?

Holt is taking a class at Timothy called Lego Freebuilding. It's kind of like first grade architecture and it's right up his alley. If you know Holt, he is a creator. He is also a junk recycler (we call him Oscar) and can sculpt just about anything from trash. A common phrase heard at my house is, "Mama, can you wash this out instead of throwing it in the garbage?" He's created an entire town for Dino-Thunder, his beloved stuffed tiger, out of cups, bowls, popsicle sticks and rubber bands. But I digress...

So in Lego class last Tuesday they were given a piece of paper with all the lego parts listed by name that the kids were to memorize. Holt knew them all before he left class, I am confident. I know that by the time I saw the paper he could rattle them all off.

In class yesterday, he sat on the edge of his chair and waited and waited and waited for his teacher to ask someone to recite the name of those pieces. It never happened. Disappointment, first grade style.

Then they moved on to the build. She was describing roof systems yesterday and each kid got the regular lego pieces to create a house plus a special secondary piece. He was one of the last to get to pick and the door he had really wanted was already taken, so he chose a window instead. He then proceeded to take some leftover lego pieces and created a cannon to sit beside the house.

When we asked him what the cannon was for, he replied, "If the teacher wanted to know how someone got into the house, I needed to have an answer."

I should probably be worried that the window wasn't the obvious answer, but I'm choosing to just be amazed that my dear boy is an outside-the-box thinker.