[L, diary, ephēmeris] 1) BLOG

Saturdays with the kids are totally exhausting but equally exhilarating.  They are always a roller-coaster of inspiration and disillusionment.  Always just enough reward to continue slogging my way though doubts about efforts being worthwhile. But the doubts are still there, too, too often.

Three previous Saturdays, Poetry was introduced via a truly great kid's book, LOVE THAT DOG.  Not having a hard copy, we went on line with SCRIBD to view the book pages, also attempting an audio version.  Viewing was better. To be sure they understood the story, Ludy translated each page as each student read it aloud.  Slow going. Even though the sentences were short and few in number, attention spans were not long enough to finish the book.

At the end of the day when each child is to write in their journals, encouragement was given to John Resty to comment in the same style as Jack, in the book about Miss Stretchberry's poetry class. He produced this:

There's more...to be continued.