Belated Post: the new local

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:

With super teacher Nina Metz, who promised to be my tour guide for the area love this!
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:
The Day of Five Poisons Art activity! They even did the Math Puzzles:



I especially loved this door:

I'm impressed they mastered the wang symbol! the art deserved a close up! There were also projects with Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, like handmade goldfish:



and ponderous questions:


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: kites! haikus! 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!