I am substituting for a Kindergarten class for the rest of the week during the mornings while their regular teacher and TA are helping proctor end of grade testing in other grades.
Today when I got there, I found out that one of the little boys in the class had died over the weekend. He was crushed by a tree his grandfather was cutting down.
So the poor kiddies came to school yesterday and found out their classmate was gone.
Most of the kids are taking it ok - mostly just curious and full of questions - I don't think the full impact of what it means when someone dies has hit all of them yet.
BUT a few of the students are still very upset! One student cried for over an hour - he's sad about his friend AND he's scared that he's going to die too! A little girl was crying that she didn't want her mom and dad to die.
The poor kids! What a horrible end to the school year! It is just so tragic.
That is sad and kids that age have a hard time dealing with it.
Last year our school had two first graders die in a four wheeler accident at the beginning of the school year. Neither were in my son's class that year but he had kindergarten with one of the boys and didn't want to believe that it was the child he knew.
It's a terrible lesson to have to learn so young to learn that people their age die too, I know it was far easier for my son to understand when we went through the death of my husband's grandpa close to the same time.
That poor grandpa, he must be devestated.
That is so sad...and when they get to that age they start asking all kinds of questions about death too. And get scared of it. My prayers are with that family, but especially that poor grandfather.
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