Now that we were officially installed in our new house, school visits began to shift. What was once local was now quite a distance and what was once far was now close by. So when I visited the three schools of Longmeadow, I realized that they were now my new local.
And what a great new local it was! With warm welcomes all around:
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| With super teacher Nina Metz, who promised to be my tour guide for the area |
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| love this! |
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| this is a "red thread" display, showing how people are connected! |
To all the amazing projects they did with my books. I loved everything they did with
Starry River of the Sky:
They even did the
Math Puzzles:
I especially loved this door:
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| I'm impressed they mastered the wang symbol! |
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| the art deserved a close up! |
There were also projects with
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, like handmade goldfish:
and ponderous questions:
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| these are hilarious! I like the one about no homework. |
As well as thoughtful essays and beautiful artwork about their favorite parts:
Ling and Ting was lovingly reillustrated:
And Pacy and Melody's science fair experiment from
Year of the Dog was tested:
And, really, that was just a small portion of all the great projects they did! There were many, many more:
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| kites! |
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| haikus! |
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| this whole wall is filled with student biographies of yours truly! |
It was so nice to realize how great my new local is going to be! Thanks so much, Longmeadow Schools!
