There's Something Kind of Fantastic About That, Isn't There?

Today in class, we took a hard-earned day of respite with a movie day watching The Fantastic Mr. Fox. I was pleased to find out that most of the kids had never seen it, and even more with how much everyone was into it. I heard them picking up on subtleties in this movie that I haven't heard in years past.

One thing we've spoken about in class, through everything from memoirs to the writings of Dan Gutman, is themes. I love how much this class appreciates threads that run across subject matters and works and just plain coincidences.

Stuff like this makes even a movie day feel like a pretty educational experience.