Day Five: Wednesday: The drawing at Farmingville Elementary

An anonymous donor brings us to the Farmingville Elementary school for two hours of making the magic happen.  In a similar scenario to the Scotland Elementary, the teachers took full advantage of our capacity to talk and draw at the same time, and paraded class after class to the work in progress to ask questions.  We drew the first thing that seemed logical:  A man selling ice cream, sells ice cream to a child who is just trying to enjoy such said ice cream, but there is this giraffe that also wants to take a lick of the ice cream (if they get within 18 to 20 inches, you have no ice cream), so he has to protect himself so he uses a large umbrella (that coincidentally has a similar shape, but not flavor to ice cream) and with the giraffe licking the umbrella, it appears that a balance has been struck - if only temporarily.

Needless to say, our young viewers got it immediately, and many made the realization for the first time in their young lives, that if you have an umbrella with you it would totally take care of that one specific problem.

The persistent parade of questions we got from the troves of young students was terrific and for a second made me believe that if we truly want to get information from enemy combatants... maybe a good place to start is with these high-pitched Q and A sessions. The two students that displayed consummate professionalism were a pair of third graders sporting a white, vertical notepad that had the words "Reporter's Notebook" on every page. Going back to their journalistic roots, they had boiled down our interview to six questions: Who, what, when, where, why and how. Please take the time to look at their notes in the photograph.