Today we had a science overload, in which we learned about organisms, populations, communities, ecosystems, and biospheres (in that order). We defined them as a class, wrote the definition, and then we were supposed to draw a picture of an ecosystem and label each part. Darrell, my approval-seeker, raised his hand, and I went over to help him. We were having a good day! So, we reviewed the definitions he didn’t know, then I asked him about his picture.

“Darrell,” I said, “Where is your organism?” He pointed to something that looked like a tree. “Great!! And what about your population?”

Darrell looked a little nervous and pointed to three arched lines across the bottom of his page. “Well, I haven’t colored them in yet…”
“That’s ok,” I said. “So what is it?”
“It’s a rainbow!”