Earth Is Our Home. So, We're Engineering Land, Air, & Sea, For a Better World Tomorrow...Well the Little Labbers Are, Anyways.

I've jumped into the helm for another year of Little Lab for Big Imaginations, and after a wonderful week of Engineering Human Togetherness, we're going a little PSA (public service announcement)(thanks, Dr. Jessica Singer Early) for the 2nd week. Yesterday, day one, we worked on land by reading Matt de la Peña's Home, writing details about our own home, and creating nature replicas from found greenery and twigs on a nature hike around Bellarmine Pond. 

Naturally, I went frog-ish. Liked the way the little guy turned out.

We didn't write about our creations, but if we did, I'm sure the words would have leaped across the page. 

The programs continue to be robust and the energy of youth is contagious, if not exhausting. I was amazed by the creativity (and imaginations) exhibited by the youngest writers) and today we're moving to scripting the dialogue that can come from the minds that our tapped for magic.

In the other room, 40 middle and secondary students are plotting week two of their novels and I'm super excited by the brilliance they once again are bringing to our Connecticut Writing Project programs. 

Yes, we're all exhausted, but we love every second of the mentoring we get to provide. We're captivated for sure. But it's time to hit the traffic. Onward.