After some heroic efforts on the part of our third-grade teachers and the acquiescence of the district, the greatly anticipated school Harry Potter week actually happened. Even though Malia had already done a full week of Harry Potter earlier in the month, it in no way diminished her excitement for the event. She simply decided that she could be a second-year student rather than a first year. We picked up all her gear at the school and let me tell you that the teachers really went all out. The great thing was that between the two weeks, there was very little overlap. Some activities that worked great at home would have been difficult in a classroom setting (our planting of the mandrakes and the scavenger hunt for the sorcerer’s stone) and others worked much better in a school setting (house points, visits to the house commons rooms, magical math). This week she got to color her house t-shirt (she was Ravenclaw this time), hatch a dragon egg, and engineer a Gringott’s cart track. Some aspects of it were disappointing to her and she felt like is was not as fun as she had expected, but I think that was largely a casualty of Covid and the shift to online school. But overall, I think she enjoyed the majority of the week’s activities. And kudos to our amazing teachers who were able to pull the whole thing off.
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