Think Time

Today as we were developing our fine motor skills through coloring. As I was walking through the room I looked at a students desk and he had drawn on his desk.  On his paper he had colored one car of the train green and another car yellow.  His desk had a 2"x4" section of green and yellow scribbled on his desk. I asked him what happened and he said, "I don't know." I tried to reason with him and show him how the colors on his desk and the colors on his paper were the same colors.  Of course it was not him who created the mess on his desk.  I asked him to sit in the safe seat until he could be honest with me. About 10-15 minutes later I stopped by his safe seat to see if he knew what happened to his desk and he said, "I colored on it."  I was amazed that just a few minutes to think about what happened allowed him to be honest.