Today was my last session as WIR at a local elementary school. I spent the morning with the grade 5s and 6s, using weird bug photos for an exercise in description.
I chose the strangest bugs I could find (and a few strange non-bug images for those phobic to insects), so the kids couldn’t rely on standard descriptions, but would have to look really carefully.
I worried the entire project could be a colossal failure, either because the kids found the bugs too creepy, or the description simply too difficult. Instead, they wrote wonderful pieces, turning their creatures into characters, and sometimes, stories.
The one drawback? I’m going to be a little creeped out this spring, as bugs start crawling in my garden, and I imagine them huge, or infesting my pillow, or camouflaging the world around them.
Maureen
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