Ms. Strauss

Unforgettable! What a treat and an honor to work with all our students and Ms. Szafran on the PHAB team- to revel in reading, freak ourselves out on ropes way, way up in the trees (have you got my slack? Yes, we STILL have your slack!),write in our journals, trust each other, create our minibooks and altered books, run our kites, create our own library things, release our books into the wild, lose ourselves in the intoxicating ambiance of the Boston Public Library (rare books, miniature books, artwork, and sculpture!) and the Mary Eddy Baker Library and Mapparium, and connect with our friends and our books. What an exhilarating way to spend summer days! Can't wait to see what unfolds for all of our students in their reading, reflecting, and writing! And, yahoo!, we got to go in a yurt! I feel a yodel coming on . . . .where's my yak?

I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow