Wow, this six week session flew by!
I was as sad as the kids were to have graduation come so fast. I guess I am just used to 8 week sessions now.
One boy really was upset at the begining of class and said to the other kids "Stop saying it's graduation day! It makes me sad!" He came up and gave me a big hug. It does feel great to know these kids love learning!

But the kids were excited about getting their wands. One little girl brought a note from home saying she had lost the first day's intro le...
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One of my favorite days is Houdini Day. I plan to do them all week!
So I kicked it off as always by asking if anyone has heard of Houdini. Sometimes one or two really know quite a bit about him. Maybe they read a biography and did a book report on him. None of them did today but they were first and second graders so mine was their first introduction to The Great One. I read the first page of The Houdini Box by Brian Selznick. It is a great build up. And I do try to do it justice with a dramati...
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Whew! A full week of classes! I am teaching at four different schools with seven classes plus my outside teacher who has two of her classes running now. My classes are on three days so I still have two week days off. Not too bad!

I taught the new Make A Snake trick to another couple of classes to iron out the details. I haved one more school to teach it to and will try to get some video of it to post and get the graphics online so it can be used by my other teachers.

I have also been trying ou...
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So one of my schools is new school for magic classes. Many schools let out the older and younger students at different times which is good for After School Enrichment classes since you can run two classes. One for the younger students and 45 minutes or so later run a class for the older kids which might go a little longer since another class won't be coming in.
But this school the time between is only 30 minutes. Not really enough time to run two classes back to back. So you either only have ...
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I am back in full swing teaching at four different schools. The classes range from ten students to over twenty in a couple of the classes. A good crowd of kids for each week!

I didn't tell you about the class graduations last session. The class with the Kindergartners was fun. I have never allowed Kinders in my classes before. They just can't learn anything that takes much skill. (I take that back. When I was in Kindergarten a girl in my class could play "Flight of the Bumblebees" on the piano...
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