My Seussical Life for 2004 March 5

I've always been pleased with the story time hour they do for three-year-olds at our Lawrence Public Library. Today, we met a new friend, a guest who read the story of Rainbow Fish in Korean. I wish I could remember her name, but she is here temporarily while she earns a Master's degree in English as a Second Language. She is from South Korea. She was wearing a traditional cold-weather dress and robe in vibrant yellow, hot pink, and red. Atticus leaned over to me during her reading and asked, "Mom, why is she saying those beautiful words?" We even learned a few words in Korean, like thank you, and octopus.

The library always provides a really fun craft after story time. Today we received a small baggie of cards with pictures of a few characters from the book along with scales cut from shimmery paper to be glued onto the cards. Each of the characters is labeled with Korean characters as well as the English letters describing the sound of the Korean word.