"All About The Amazing Aquaman"

This is our newest F.O.A.M. member Rick Luca. Not only is he is rocking the Aqua-Hoodie, but he has used his love of the Sea King to teach his class of second graders about writing. I'll let him explain after the pics:

My name is Rick Luca and I would love to be an official F.O.A.M. I am a late-in life Aquaman fan and really enjoy the Shrine. I teach second grade and have used Aquaman (and family) to help teach my students about non-fiction writing.

Attached are pictures of me in the famous "Aqua-Hoodie" by my overhead projector before one of my class's writing lessons-along with a few Aquaman figures. My second graders always "made" me put on my "uniform" during this latest writing unit. As I wrote my "All About Aquaman" book, they would write their own All About books on the topic of their choice. Also attached are a few pages from my "published" All About the Amazing Aquaman book which my students modeled their own pieces after.

In my classroom, we have enjoyed numerous animated adventures of Aquaman from his own 1960's series, Superman TAS, and they all really enjoyed the Batman: Brave and the Bold episode "Aquaman's Outrageous Adventure".

I told my students I would try to get the picture of me in the Aqua-Hoodie on the site as a "celebration" for all of their hard work.


Great Neptune, is this great! Not only does Rick sound like an *awesome* teacher, but he's introducing a whole new generation of kids to Aquaman! If that doesn't make him a Friend Of AquaMan, I don't know what does!

Thanks Rick for the pics, the story, and your work with the kids--and welcome to F.O.A.M.!