The first day was full of assemblies, storytelling and workshops and the second day was full of creative writing workshops with excited, involved, engaged and FUN students!
I love the energy children bring to writing! It is SO much fun to work with their ideas of WHO, WHERE, WHEN, WHY and WHAT and to mold it into a fun picture book stories while they buzz about the room coming up with VERBS that will activate the sentences and story! There is nothing more refreshing that seeing something appear out of a child's imagination and then to see it bloom and flourish into a story someone might actually want to read in a book! Magical this job of mine!
FIVE years ago I visited CA for the first time and wished I could go back to school.
It was a beautiful Autumn day and we all decided to do some pictures. I took a picture with the little children pictured and was presented with a great photograph to remember the day by.
As I was going through my bulging school files over the summer I came across this picture and thought it would be fun for the folks at CA to see the kids as they were "back in the day" and my host, the AWESOME Allison Peters (librarian), set out to find them to take another picture. Only one was not at the school any longer.
SO, that was then...
This is NOW!
I would say for the first time in a photograph in a long time, I am the least changed of all. That is a nice thing when the days, weeks, months and years seem to slip by.
Perhaps I'll catch up with them again in five years when they are in their last year at CA. Now that will be some picture, huh?
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