Art time came after lunch on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
The teacher had learned this about the class within the first week: the energy level after lunch was either impossible or excellent, depending on the child, and the transition to art sorted them quickly. The children who needed to move stayed restless for ten minutes and then found the work. The children who were already internal — the quiet assessors, the ones who had been waiting for a task that matched how their minds worked — went immediately still and began.
Bram was one of the latter.
He had taken his seat at the low table in the second row without being directed, which was consistent — he always found his preferred spot without searching, the same seat each time, position chosen on the first day and not reconsidered. He collect
