Showing posts with label Reading Fair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reading Fair. Show all posts

Thursday, November 11, 2010

Book Fair

David's book fair is today, will try to post a picture. It was about the "Dragon of the Red Dawn" by Mary Pope Osborne. He did a lot of the work himself, but I have to honestly say that Todd and I did about 40% each. He made a beautiful diorama of the mountain top near Edo (old Tokyo), with a dragon and Jack and Annie figures riding its back.

I helped David type the information on the book, found pictures from the Internet, and helped him put them on the posterboard.

I think it's a little busy, now that it's done, but it's very cute.

It includes some poetry, including Basho's haiku Old Pond:



The best-known Japanese haiku is Bashō's "old pond":
古池や 蛙飛込む 水の音
furuike ya kawazu tobikomu mizu no oto

"An Old Pond
A frog jumps in
The sound of water."



So two days ago David tried his hand at writing a poem:

Flowers

The flowers bloom in the day,
but corals
Are active at night

A poem by David Hinote


What can I say?? The kid is simply brilliant!




...

Nano progress:

I had a snafu earlier today, working in Scrivener. I went to delete the title of a scene, to change it I think (can't remember, was so flustered)--and I deleted the ENTIRE scene!

A happy accident maybe. I just finished rewriting that scene and I think it's better now.

Happy writing everyone!