These are pictures of the Power Rangers: Jungle Fury and Transformers. And don't even pretend that you didn't watch the power rangers when you were a kid.
At work today, two children had the dollhouse, so toy people, and some animals out. The people (who really came from a leggo set or something) were power rangers. The animals were what the rangers became when you fed them pumpkin pie. The lived in the hotel, and hid in the hotel, and the fought each other. Every time they died, they just got back up and started fighting again. This was really fun to watch. A child's imagination is a crazy place, but the stuff that they come up with just amazes me. I know it's all pretend, and they know it's all pretend, but they were serious when they said that pumpkin pie turns them into evil cheetahs. I thought pumpkin pie just made me fat, but if I'm going to turn into a cheetah, you guys better watch out!
But seriously, I was intrigued with how children could just take all this stuff and make their own reality. I would never think about pumpkin pie creating evil cheetahs, but when you're wrapped up in a world or power rangers, anything could happen. Children have a knack for making the ordinary seem extraordinary, and that's something I've always appreciated. As a teacher, I want my children to feel free to make the ordinary extraordinary in my classroom. I believe that a classroom should be a place where anything can happen and it's safe to do so. Children need to be comfortable being themselves, and they should be able to do that, whether they like power rangers, ninja turtles or barbie dolls. That's what this experience taught me.
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