Meeting face to face and sharing ideas.

So today was the kick-off meeting/luncheon.

After a flurry of emails back and forth these last few weeks, we got to finally meet face to face and share ideas. I was also happy that Cathy suggested we bring pictures of our kids (in her case, some grand kids - 5 grand daughters all born within 9 months of each other, which includes a set of twins!)

To say "we are all very excited for the students in both classes" would be an understatement!

I knew from an email from Cathy Douglas, that she has 23 students but only today learned how many 6th graders Jeff Loreen has...<drum roll please>... 32!!! That's a great number!  32 can be two big groups of 16, and groups with 4 or 8 and 16 pairs. Fun!

For Cathy Douglas's 3rd grade class, a couple of the things I remember most about what she would like to co-create is to aid them in tapping into the power of their imaginations. I LOVE IT! And she wants to allow her self to personally to learn how to be more flexible.  This is going to be fun!

For Jeff Loreen, what I'm excited about is to assist with productions he's been doing on an annual basis already. He said there's a program at the end of the school year as well as this Dec. I will just be an audience member for their first show - which is in a few weeks to celebrate Halloween. There were quite a few things that he shared with me about his students that are very exciting. I have a strong feeling that his 6th graders are quite extraordinary and his expectations he holds for them, have been allowing them to flourish. I believe that our only limitation for our group will be our own imaginations. I initially thought I would wait until just before Thanksgiving to meet them but when I found out about their show coming up, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to see them in action.

I will be meeting Cathy Douglas's 3rd graders - tomorrow early in the morning. I'm so excited I can hardly sleep!

Jeff Loreen & Dave Shipp 

Cathy Douglas & Dave Shipp