Want to meet an owl? Maybe watch a mama grizzly and her cubs at Yellowstone?
How about a Magic Quest? Some dancing mice? A campfire? A raccoon? Life at Lake Chelan, or in China?
Students at Maple Leaf’s Perkins School, 9005 Roosevelt Way N.E., have just published a booklet of two dozen-plus stories – about themselves.
“For me, as a teacher, the most frightening part of releasing an anthology of personal narratives written by fourth- and fifth-graders is the sense of loss of control,” writes their teacher, Rebecca Peterson.
“‘It doesn’t have to be perfect,’ I tell my students many times a week, but today they’re the ones reminding me.
“I think you will find something to be amazed by in each of these stories.”
After printing the anthologies, the students walked copies up and down Roosevelt to the Blue Saucer and Cloud City Coffee.
Both cafes have now run out of copies of Spark, but Rebecca says if folks want to read it she’ll print more up. Just email her at the Perkins School- rpeterson (at) perkinsschool.org
