the undeniable logic of the first grader

Over the last two months, the first graders at SSBS have been working on how to do explanatory writing, answering questions like “why do children need to come to school?” and “how does Santa do his job?”. (You can obviously tell that we were doing that last one over the holiday season.) The last writing assignment was to explain why family was important. It was surprisingly sweet reading why these children thought family was important to them, but there was one in particular that shined above them all. 

“Why is family important? Family important because if we don’t have family we will not come to this world. If we don’t come to this world, there will be no one on the earth! If no one on the earth then the whole world is going to vanish! If the whole world is going to vanish then the whole story is going to end! What a bad story! So we need to cherish our families because it is very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very important!”

Yes, there are that many exclamation marks and very’s. You have to hand it to this kid, though. The logic is impeccable.