Imagination plays a huge part in shaping a child’s mind. Children don't have to learn to use their imagination.

Mixing literature with art and drama can be a powerful way for students to remember and apply both the content and underlying meaning of what they have read.

The last song sung. The last good-bye said. The last dismissal bell rung. The last student departed. The teacher returns to the classroom, surveys the emptiness, and listens to the silence. The silence is deeper and lonelier than the normal after school quietness. There is no lingering echo of childish voices. There are no lessons to plan for the next day. It is the silence of waiting, an emptiness that won’t be filled until children enter the door again in a few months.