This is the excitement of West Side today!!!
This is my friend and coworker Mary. She is a very creative and imaginative person. She also has much compassion for all kinds of animals.
Today she was the RIF (Reading is Fundamental) celebrity reader. She put on quite a show. She read the book Oppossomundous and dressed the part of mama. She even added the right voice and accent! It was wonderful. As you can see, she actually has a pet possum. Her golden retriever retrieved this possum when she was just a few weeks old and dropped it at her feet. So being Mary, she nursed the baby along and read EVERYTHING about possums. So, Ta Da!, she has a pet possum. The kids loved her. They were very attentive and were excited about seeing a live possum.
The RIF program is a fantastic program. We do 3 RIF programs a year for the second graders. They receive a free book of their choice, a bookmark, a pencil and an eraser. Plus they get a very cool program/speaker of some kind.
Along with RIF, it was the 100th day of school, the PBIS good behavior reward day, and DEAR (Drop Everything And Read) Day in 2nd grade. A very busy day indeed!
Time to crash and catch up!
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