The sun sets in the west (just about everyone knows that), but Sunset Towers faced east. Strange!
So one of my campers is reading The Westing Game as a school assigned summer reading book and I was Googling around to see if there were any useful websites or games. And then I found that Ellen Raskin donated all her manuscript and draft notes to UW-Madison so that students could see the process of writing a novel and creating cover art and page layouts. Some genius has turned it into a website with all the scanned pages. There's even audio clips of her speaking about the materials (which I haven't listened to, but I'm sure they're awesome too). I love that book to pieces when I was younger and even more upon each rereading and I'm sure many of you did too, so go check out The Westing Game Manuscript!
The first week of camp is over (we got today off because it's a holiday weekend) and it's been a lot of fun. Even though I'm only consistently there in the afternoon (there's summer school in the morning and camp in the afternoon, with less academic-focused activities) it's been so hot and there's so much running around that it sort of drains you and so I've been exhausted all week. Still, my campers are really sweet, friendly, hilarious kids (even when they're too noisy and don't listen) so the times when we don't have super scheduled stuff to do and are just hanging out and drawing or they're listening to a book (at the moment it is Matilda by Roald Dahl, because there was no outpouring of negative reaction and it was one of close-to-the-right age books that I had on my shelf) it's a lot of fun.
In the holiday weekend, I most likely will head out of the city to my aunt and uncle's apparently notorious 4th of July party and am extremely excited, in no small part because I know the food will be awesome :o)
The first week of camp is over (we got today off because it's a holiday weekend) and it's been a lot of fun. Even though I'm only consistently there in the afternoon (there's summer school in the morning and camp in the afternoon, with less academic-focused activities) it's been so hot and there's so much running around that it sort of drains you and so I've been exhausted all week. Still, my campers are really sweet, friendly, hilarious kids (even when they're too noisy and don't listen) so the times when we don't have super scheduled stuff to do and are just hanging out and drawing or they're listening to a book (at the moment it is Matilda by Roald Dahl, because there was no outpouring of negative reaction and it was one of close-to-the-right age books that I had on my shelf) it's a lot of fun.
In the holiday weekend, I most likely will head out of the city to my aunt and uncle's apparently notorious 4th of July party and am extremely excited, in no small part because I know the food will be awesome :o)