Friday, January 4, Orange High School’s Creative Writing class, taught by Brooke Smith, went to Pathways Elementary School to read children stories that the students had written, illustrated, and bound themselves.
The class was split into groups and sent into two different Kindergarten classes. Then, those groups split up further among themselves and rotated around the respective classrooms. The students would read the story to the kindergartners, show them the pictures, and tell the students how the writers bound the book together.
Two students who attended the field trip, Skylar Crabtree, junior, and Samantha Flanagan, Senior, were able to briefly talk about their experience on the trip.
Skylar Crabtree wrote a book about a ballerina called Fabulous Feet. She felt that the trip overall went well, but had some complaints about the books themselves. She felt that a page requirement should have been enforced. “One girl only wrote, like, seven pages, and she was done reading in, like, 30 seconds.” Other than that, she had no complaints.
Samantha Flanagan wrote a book called Basset Hound Adventures about a basset hound who protected a barn from cats. She had no complaints about the field trip. “I wouldn't change anything, but I’d like to do it again,” said Flanagan.
Both Flanagan and Crabtree said that their high point of the trip was being able to read to the kids.
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