She's an Author!

I have to tell you about May's wonderful teacher this year. Her name is Mrs. Lorraine Ware. May tells me that Mrs. Ware and Miss Carroll (her class' intern) are her very best teachers yet (and that's really saying something because I was super impressed with last years teacher and intern!)

Mrs. Ware has been on a waiting list for years for a tremendous learning opportunity. It's called "The Big Zoo Lesson," and is held at our local zoo. Basically, the kids get to spend a whole week at the zoo, studying science. I feel so fortunate that the kids get to participate.

Mrs. Ware has also been hosting Book Bingo at the school for several years. Families donate books for this fabulous event and everyone meets together to eat pizza and play bingo. The tension mounts as numbers are called and kids who win bingo get to go out into the hall to choose a new book. Quite often we have come home from book bingo with a large stack of books since all the kids are allowed to play and people are quite generous with their donations. It's a wonderful event. The kids in Mrs. Ware's classroom, which includes May this year, are in charge of helping with the event. They hand out tickets to Bingo winners.

Her classroom puts together a newsletter twice a month with a student photographer and student articles. These newsletters tell about all of the good things that are happening at school and in the classroom. I love being able to see into the day-to-day life in their classroom, through the eyes of the students.

Mrs. Ware, along with the other third grade teacher, Ms. Byrd-Goode and Miss Carroll, is the coach for the jump rope club. You can see more about that in my previous post here. I love it that May gets to participate in this club. It's a great way to get exercise and develop agility. Thanks goes to these teachers and their dedicated work.

The most recent, cool project they've been working on is their very own books (thus, the title of this post). They have written and illustrated their very own fairy tales. They were each given a blank hardback book in which to write their work and draw their pictures. I was so pleased to see May diligently working and then sharing her project with her siblings as they all sat around to hear her reading her tale, "Mousey and the Three Rabbits."