PTO Meeting

Don't miss our monthly PTO meeting this afternoon (Monday, October 10th) in the school library at 3:45pm.

I, for one, plan to leave the kids with my unsuspecting husband who is off from work celebrating either Columbus day or Canadian Thanksgiving, not sure which.  Did you know that Canada's first Thanksgiving was celebrated nearly 50 years (43 if we're going to get picky) before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock?  It was celebrated by an Englishman named Martin Frobisher.

Which leads me to my segway.  My kids and I have chosen one evening per week with some close friends to choose books and even videos from the library.  One of the reasons we started going every week was to change out our Daniel Pinkwater books about the bad polar bears Irving and Muktuk.  The Frobishers own the fancy hotel with the pool where Larry the other polar bear is a life guard.  (See the transition?)

Our weekly library trips are part of our routine and exposes the kids (and their parents!) to a lot of books we otherwise would have not known about like the other books written by the Knufflebunny author, which are really funny to my kids.  Surprisingly, joke books are really great for early readers.  They require reading comprehension to tell and understand the joke.

Make a date with your kids, it's more fun than you would have imagined.

Nikki Rutledge
-Whitney Parent