Reading to the second graders was a lot of fun...like just about anything I do I put my heart and soul into it, and it's worth every effort. Speaking of putting heart and soul into something, the children's costumes were adorable and downright creative. To refresh your memory from yesterday, it was "National Young Author's Day" during which students picked a word from a list and dressed up to represent that word. They had an early morning parade, and other adults came and read to classes...just a good, wholesome day all around the board.
I would have loved to post more students in their costume, but I had no way of getting parental permission to put their child's pictures in here. However, I did have three that were 'covered' up that I thought you'd like to see.....
"BOOKWORM"
"SKYSCRAPER"
"BUFFALO"
"WEIRDO"
OK,...."GIGANTIC"
The book that I read had a good lesson...there was a little boy who, like many today, was hooked on his TV, video games, and electrical gizmos...so when a storm blew in and the power went out, he freaked...all his back-up batteries were dead....saw his little sister happily playing with a battery operated doll, stole the batteries which then opened a whole 'nuther can of worms... anyhow, long story short, he learned to have creative fun with his little sister and realized he didn't need all those electrical whatchamadoodles to bring him happiness.
And it was good to see all the students having put so much effort into their creative costumes, too. Plenty of children today could benefit from more of such creative exercises, eh? And just maybe my deep winter pac boots will bring us good luck with lots of snow this winter. Water for us. Snow-days for the kids. Something to talk about in the weather...
I would have loved to post more students in their costume, but I had no way of getting parental permission to put their child's pictures in here. However, I did have three that were 'covered' up that I thought you'd like to see.....
"BOOKWORM"
"SKYSCRAPER"
"BUFFALO"
"WEIRDO"OK,...."GIGANTIC"
The book that I read had a good lesson...there was a little boy who, like many today, was hooked on his TV, video games, and electrical gizmos...so when a storm blew in and the power went out, he freaked...all his back-up batteries were dead....saw his little sister happily playing with a battery operated doll, stole the batteries which then opened a whole 'nuther can of worms... anyhow, long story short, he learned to have creative fun with his little sister and realized he didn't need all those electrical whatchamadoodles to bring him happiness.
And it was good to see all the students having put so much effort into their creative costumes, too. Plenty of children today could benefit from more of such creative exercises, eh? And just maybe my deep winter pac boots will bring us good luck with lots of snow this winter. Water for us. Snow-days for the kids. Something to talk about in the weather...
1 comment:
What FUN!! :)
And such precious costumes! Wonder if some of the kids used any of theirs for Halloween?! ("Frog Princess" could sure use that one next year if she can still fit into it!)
What a great story too --- GREAT lesson for kids of the "electronic generation"!
My brothers and I grew up in the country WITHOUT any electrical watchamadoodles (and UHF/VHF 13-channel B/W TV for in the early 60's - early 70's!). We lived a couple miles outside of a small farm-town, and had run of all the nearby fields, pastures, hills, and farm-ponds --- MANY creative hours and activities blossomed and thrived ..... !!
"Off-road" with our bikes and standing-up on our Flexible-Flyer snow sleds, we were "mountain-biking" and "snowboarding" WAY before such things ever existed in the mainstream! GREAT memories of creative childhood ..... which ultimately led to creativity in adulthood!!
Thanks for sharing those great pics "Mr. Gigantic"!! :)
Suzy :)
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