Fiction vs Non-fiction

At the beginning of this break you may remember that Jairus taught us "if the animals have clothes on, it's fiction. If they don’t have clothes on, it’s not fiction."   I can just imagine this being part, only part, of a discussion in his Pre-K classroom about fiction vs non-fiction books. 

I was very tickled when a couple days later we saw a cute little dog wearing a pink sweater.   Without missing a beat, Jairus said.."Look!  A fiction dog."  

It may be time to add more to that original definition -- like fiction animals can talk!  :)   But, I appreciate how quickly he processed and applied the knowledge he had. 

The fiction vs non-fiction also came up at the movies.   We went to see Tangled and to our surprise, Jairus cried through much of it.   He was REALLY upset that the "mom" was mean and evil.  We tried to explain that it was fiction.  But he wasn't sure he believed us. The characters were people afterall.   When we went today to see Yogi Bear (yes, we have seen 2 movies in the theaters one week which is more than Jairus has seen in his lifetime!), we reminded Jairus that it was fiction.   He has no problems with that -- obviously the animals had clothes on and talked! :)