Ants Go Marching
Why are the ants marching? Because today is National Picnic Day! It is also a wonderful, rainy day right now, so the ants may have gone underground in order to let the worms come out and look around. Rain or shine, picnics outside are always the most fun. Have you noticed that food seems to taste better when you eat it outside? Here is a picture of my son, Jacob, and daughter, Katie, and me having a picnic in our backyard.
If you have pictures of your family having a picnic, celebrating Earth Day, writing kind notes to Shepard secretaries, library specialists, kindergarten teachers, or enjoying "twin day", please share them on Twitter with the hashtag #shepardshines. Please also go to Facebook and share your photos on the Shepard PTSO page.
And now a shout out to my "A" day students in the following classes:
Ms. Wilcox 3rd grade, Ms. Shaw's 5th grade, Ms. Sicht's Kindergarten, Ms. Snyder's 1st grade, and Mr. Smith's 2nd grade!
Happy Thursday!!
Google Earth Day Game: Yesterday Google's homepage featured a game involving honey bees. If you go to Google homepage and type in "Google Earth Day 2020", the game will be one of the choices. You will use your mouse to drag the bee from collecting pollen to pollinating flowers and learn some good bee facts along the way. This would be a game that I would use with the kindergartners to do mouse practice. Great fun!
Show Me Readers Award Winners!
The votes have been tallied!! The Missouri Association of School Librarians has announced the top three winners of the Show Me Reader Award books for 2020. This past year, we have read 10 books that were nominated for the Show Me Reader Award book this year. The students heard all 10 books, voted on their favorite, and Ms. Salmons turned those votes in to the MASL committee to count. Votes came in from every 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grader in the state of Missouri. Here are the top three winners:
In 3rd place with a total of 12, 256 votes is:
In 2nd place with a total of 12, 602 votes is:
And in 1st place with a total of 18,977 votes is:
Woo hoo! It is always so much fun to work with the Show Me Readers Award books! Every book on the nominee list is good, and students will enjoy rereading them at home this summer!
If you would like to hear the results for the older students' Mark Twain Award book winners, you can go to this link to watch: https://www.wevideo.com/view/1654588539
And don't forget to check out the Stallion Storytime link!
https://flipgrid.com/edwards5739
The user ID is 2020.
Well, that is all for today. See you tomorrow!
Miss you!!
