Field trip comes to life

Today, my 5th graders and I walked to a UPenn auditorium to see at Holocaust play called My Heart in a Suitcase. We'll be studying WWII later this year, and the kids are really interested in that time period. The show was amazing, despite its sad ending with a girl having to leave her parents in Germany. Unfortunately, they both died in concentration camps without ever seeing her again. When the show was over, the actors came back on stage with a special announcement: the main character in the story is alive and IN THE AUDIENCE! The real Ann Fox came up and answered questions from the audience. It was really neat to see, and the kids thought it was the coolest thing ever. She lives in Philadelphia, so she comes to one show a year, and this was it! What a neat experience!!!