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I teach cartooning class to thirteen first and second graders.
On Leadership Day.
Once a month.
It is a cinch,
As last year I was teaching cartooning class to thirty-one
Kindergarten students.
This is amazingly simple.
Before they congregate I draw something simple on the white board in steps.
This week I started with an oval.
Added a tiny elongated rectangular stem at the top with rounded edges.
Step 3:  Triangle eyes.
Step 4:  Round nose
Step 5: Giant smile
Step 6:  Teeth in giant smile.
Step 7:  Blackened smile where teeth were not.
Step 8:  Wrote Jack-O-Lantern next to it.
It may be cartooning class, but I throw in words too, because I think words are important.
Then I drew a step by step witch, and a step by step cat, and a step by step broom on the whiteboard.
One little guy came in quite a bit later than the others.
He was forced to sit alone, so I sat with him.
We drew and colored, and I sang a bit,
Showing the rest of the 6’s and 7’s we could sing.
Pretty soon we were all singing.
The little guy next to me had drawn a giant jack-o’-lantern.
He had also written Jack and I Love You on his paper.
He suddenly got really serious and put his big black eyes next to my face.
“Hear that?” he asked me.
I stopped coloring, seeing his seriousness.
“Jesus does not like Halloween,” he warned me.  I am sure his parents will be utterly delighted with his cartoon.

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