Cartooning In Seventeen Minutes

In seventeen minutes I teach cartooning to a bunch of lively and eager first, second and third graders.
I have been looking forward to it in a fantastic way since yesterday, when I realized I am doing it.
We could choose three things to teach, things that we love, that are not traditional school-ish things.
My choices were number 1, Cartooning  2,  Poetry  3, Career Exploration, excited I got my first choice.
Wait a second! I always get my first choice. There is an insane madness to getting it. Listen closely.
You have to meet the deadline.  I always get my choices back the instant I see them before I forget.
Once something lands on my desk, in my drawer, around my office, it is gone forever.
I am a messy woman, maybe not the world’s messiest, but I am indeed a contender.
Knowing this about myself, paperwork gets done instantly for I despise it so.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2018



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Date: 9/22/2018 1:06:00 AM
Those kids are going to have a BLAST cartooning with you! That is wonderful!!! I identify strongly with the latter part of this poem- as I also have to knock out any mail, paperwork, etc... as soon as I see it (before it disappears into the frightening abyss of my desk) !
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Rhona Mcferran
Date: 9/22/2018 8:13:00 PM
That is so awesome! ;D
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 9/22/2018 12:59:00 PM
We had so much fun! They yelled out ideas And I drew a cartoon of everything they yelled out except Lion and Kangaroo. I told them these were too HARD so they drew them and showed off and stuck out their tongues and we laughed so hard!
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