I especially love seeing how the students get excited for my visits. From finding trivia on my website:
(the librarian made up a fun, little list of questions students had to answer from my website--so she was teaching them information finding skills as well as more about me!)
to learning about Chinese painting:
One girl even made the map of Minli's journey from Where the Mountain Meets the Moon!
What is really nice is that schools tend to inspire each other. This school in South Windsor read about how another (the school that threw me the red egg party with musical entertainment) had decided to use The Year of the Dog for their "One Book, One School" program (the whole school reads the same book). So, they decided to do the same thing!
Isn't that grand? Thanks so much for the lovely memories!