So, we have a student who has fallen in love with the Harry Potter series; enough so that Harrison quickly changed to Harry (with a lightening bolt above the a) which progressed to Harry Potter rather rappidly as well. This student has been known to write Harry Potter as his name on his paper and most recently came to school with a lightening bolt drawn on his forehead from the night before.
This students' love for the books has created a love for it among his friends. Thus today at recess they played "Harry Potter". The best part of this game is that as they run around with un-sharpened pencils (wands) we get to hear some wonderful things get yelled at each other, here are a few ...
"Just be Voldemort, someone has to!""Expelliarmus!" or "Expelisimus" (pronunciation is a problem)"You have to speak British, it's what they speak in the movies."
... being Harry Potter fans ourselves the 2nd grade teacher and I decided to join in on the fun. We decided we can dress in all black and pretend to be dementors when they get too close ( too bad they don't know their patronus charm yet). I also decided to use my "Wingardium Leviosa" charm on a few of them and proceeded to watch them "float" up the play structures.
... later in the day we decided that "Petrificus Totalus" could come in handy in the classroom, just imagine students who can't talk or move but can hear everything you say :D
