Today I had a blast visiting John Wise P.S!
I love visiting children in a classroom. It’s alot of fun and the children are often very appreciative, attentive, and well behaved with a teacher in the back of the room. I know I looked forward to every visit and assembly and special event that they had at my school. Anything to get out of schoolwork! This morning I had the pleasure of visiting two classes at John Wise P.S. in St Thomas ON. The children were great fun. One group was a full day kindergarten class, and the other were grade threes. The Kindergarten class was fun, they threw me for a bit of a loop though. They loved the magic, and pirate jokes, so I brought out a pirate story to read them. As soon as the cover of the book came into view they all shouted “We read that one!” and pointed to it on the shelf. Always the prepared pirate, I smiled and pulled out another book. The back up book. As soon as the cover of that one came into view another cheer of “We read that one too!” What I did not know was all the little pirates had spent the last few weeks doing their homework preparing for a visit from a magic pirate ( me ) and besides reading every pirate book they could, they decorated the classroom, Built a pirate ship in the corner and put a treasure map on the wall! I put down the book and pulled out a larger magic trick I had set up for the older kids in the next classroom. The children loved it and were very happy.
The Grade three classroom visit went well also. This class was not expecting me, as the visit was set up at the last minute. The children were thrilled when I walked in the room though! I was not sure if they knew what to expect from me, so I asked how many of them had seen me before at a fair or a show at the library and they surprised me as just about every hand went up. Out of a class full of kids I don’t think there were more than two children who had not seen me before. It was wonderful to visit them and show them some new tricky bits of business! Both classes wrote me wonderful thank you letters as well. Definitely a day I’ll remember.
I love visiting schools and having fun with the kids. Big show in the gym, or a small show in the classroom I would love to come to you children’s classroom and visit them. Have your child’s teacher give me a call!
- A Treasured Visit


