The best stories are the ones you can feel.

Imagine sitting in school trying to teach a bunch of 9-year-olds how to do it.

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At Treetops Charter School in Euless, they've found the way. They're abandoning the classroom and using the lush woods the school sits on to get kids thinking about how to make their writing come to life.

"We're feeling, smelling, and hearing some of your senses," said Greyson Meyer.

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You jumpstart their creativity by putting nature in their hands, something their teacher, Rikki McDonald, knows firsthand. She was a student here.

"I remember coming outside often with my teachers. And when I went to college, I did some more research on the i

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