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Guinevere’s playground at school is the stuff of my own childhood. Hers looks like it was planned around the Dick and Jane stories from the olden days. Tall, established maple trees tower over the fields, offering shade in summer and color in the fall. They also offer leaves upon leaves upon leaves. Children in play yards love to gather and pile, be it snow, leaves, sticks and I’ve even seen students piling up and rolling in the grass clippings after the field has been mowed.

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Recently we were up at the school and Gigi started getting fired up about the leaves. About how she and her friends were collecting and piling them up, but there was a faction nearby with their own pile and they were stealing leaves from Gigi’s group! She lamented that they were only allowed to go so far before the recess teachers called them back, leaving thousands of fluffy leaves just out of touch, beyond the boundary line.

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I’m response, Bradley offered up a solution: to go home, gather rakes and pile up every leaf on the playground in Gigi’s domain! So that’s just what they did. It took about an hour before they had the biggest leaf pile ever to play in! By the time school rolled around the next day the pile was gone, spread out by some lucky kids in the hours between our leaving and returning. But for a few moments, Gigi and the LJ crew were Queens and Kings of the leaf pile!

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