Abbie Bowker is here!!!

Our author/illustrator visit is finally here for us to enjoy!
We had a wonderful time learning, creating, and sharing. 

Our school is ready for Abbie Bowker's visit:

 

 

We have read Woolly Bear Winter. We created woolly bears, poems, and illustrations!

They did such a great job!

Getting ready for Abbie Bowker's visit!

The students in our school are such hard workers! They created big woolly bear caterpillars in Kindergarten. Our first graders created their own size of woolly bears. While our second graders created illustrations for poetry.

We are all looking forward to our time with Abbie Bowker! 

Author visit coming our way!!

Abbie Bowker is coming to our school on June 1st & 2nd!

Abbie is the co-author and illustrator of Woolly Bear Winter! She is a Vermonter and teacher.  Her sister, Cam, is the other author, who created the poem in the story. 

Abbie will be here to share about the book and how it was created as well as work with classes on creating poems and illustrations. We are looking forward to her visit and learning more about science, nonfiction, Vermont wildlife, and a bit of Vermont folklore! 

Getting ready for her visit, we have sent home a form in case your family would like to own a copy of her book. Abbie plans on signing all of the books ordered by May 15th. If you need a new order form just let us know in the library! 

Book Fair Update

Thank you to all of the families that took part in our spring book fair! 

This is always an exciting time for the students! 

Because of all of you, the PTO was able to raise just over $1000!

We also had families participate using our online fair. The online fair provides an online 24/7 store with a wide variety of items that begins a few days before our in person fair and last for one week after the fair. This option provides a way for family out of town to purchase as well as busy families that could not make it into the in person fair. All items purchased in the online fair are shipped free to the school after the online fair ends. 

We had an estimation jar at the fair that was mostly filled with mini marshmallows, in honor of our camping theme. The person closest without going over wins a poster and a book from the fair. This fair our winner was a sibling at MBS. He guessed 180. There were 183 marshmallows in the jar!

Thanks again and we hope to see you in the fall at our next fair!

Book Fair Info

Our book fair is March 27th -31st. 

We also have an online fair going March 23rd to April 5th in case you cannot visit our fair. 

The link to the online fair is here.

Our link to the book fair homepage can be found in the right hand sidebar.

The students will being with previews on Monday, March 27th in the afternoon. The previews continue on Tuesday, March 28th. After the previews are complete, we begin sales. The book fair will accept cash, credit, and checks made to UMS PTO.

We are looking for volunteers to help with student previews and evening open hours. Be on the lookout for a letter and flyer going home. 

See you at the fair!

Hello there darling, who is the most glamorous of all? 

Meee, of course!

This is one rich and pampered cat! She is very good at being glamorous. But will that change when a visiting family member also brings a dog? Can a glamorous cat be friends with an outfit wearing dog? 

The students had a ball reading about Glamourpuss! The adventure of what will happen between Bluebell and Glamourpuss kept the pages turning. 

       

Here is a video of the author introducing the book: