the december writers' recital at oley valley elementary school.

last friday, oley valley elementary school hosted its december writers' recital in its library at the hands of jenny albee. this is a special opportunity where teachers are allowed to pick only one student per class to share their writing with an audience of family and friends as a way to showcase their language talents on the page. the library hosted two separate sessions for the recital, and the morning one is featured here.

some of the topics from students' writings were vacationing in ocean city, new jersey, and autumn in pennsylvania. here are a few of the lines from what students wrote and shared.

seagulls flocking for food

i also smell greasy french fries

i taste the lemon-y lemonade on the boardwalk

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i feel cool breezes every night

my favorite feeling is gooey pumpkin guts when 

you put your hands in the carved pumpkin

i also hear crows cawing

with thought of apple cider and oley 

fair french fries, my mouth waters

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bubble wrap and orange big foot footprints on the floor

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a lot of people say, "where did you get that blonde hair"

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turkeys have 5,000 to 6,000 feathers on their bodies

female turkeys lay 10 to 18 eggs at a time―that is a lot of eggs

did you know that when turkeys are excited, 

their necks turn red, white and blue

unfortunately, scenes of actual writings and awards from the recital didn't happen with my camera, but lillee grace hetrick's mom kindly took some eye-scenes to pass along as more visuals for this kid-honoring day. 

just eight-years-old, she is a more creative niece than i knew of myself at her age, aside from a poem which i wrote about deer in the woods for my second grade teacher. but this attention to promoting the talents of young kids through their writing abilities is a welcome approach to positives in our often distracting, too rushed world today. and this may just be one of the memories which stays with them and helps them to believe in themselves when they're the adults in charge of our world, once they're grown-ups. hopefully they take this care of thought, observation, and language-crafting with them.