Kindergarten Awe

I'm still in awe and completely amazed at what kindergartners are learning.  Way way back in the day we learned our colors, ABC's and numbers.  Now they are learning to read.  They are learning science.  They are learning addition.  It is so much more advanced than even when Mike first went to school.
I'm sure part of it is we are learning just how much more and easily small children learn.  They are now promoting full day kindergarten.  By the time the little man goes there will be no other option.  I just hope the curriculum is such that he isn't bored.  Because everything she learns now he is also learning.  She teaches him and he picks up everything lickety-split.
I am in awe every time I take her papers out of her backpack and look at them.  We have a sunflower diagram hanging on the frig.  I understand the theory behind all the work I see and am just amazed.  I am in awe every time I hear her using the things she is learning in her play.
Tonight we were talking about snails. They had a snail section not too long ago.  So we crossed a snail trail and it got us talking about it.  I think she liked telling me things I didn't know.  And she is a lot braver than me.  I'm not willing to hold one.  She did.  Said she washed really good afterwards to get the slimey sticky off.  Ew.