Miss you!!!

Hey Grizzlies!

It's Mrs. Panther here. I just want you all to know how much I miss each and everyone of you. I hope you are all taking care of yourself and your families while we are apart. I am hoping and praying that we all get to see each other soon.

As all of you know, we were supposed to start Book Madness when we returned from Spring Break. I was a little bummed when I found out that we would not be returning to school until April 13th, so I immediately starting contacting authors and publishers about ways that I could still get you all Book Madness and not get in trouble for it. You see, even as an educator I have to be careful with what I put on the internet. I can get in some BIG trouble if I were to just read you a book and share the reading on the internet, because I did not have permission from the author or publisher to do so. After all, they are people too that need to make a living and feed their families. LUCKILY our nation's authors and publishers really stepped it up and gave us some freedom with posting us reading to you. I still have a lot of rules I have to follow, but I can read to you, we can vote for our favorites and we can continue Book Madness.

I will be creating a private YouTube channel that only Grant families will have access to. I will be posting the link to that site in a newletter that will be coming out from Mr. Turnis and on this Blog. We will be voting on the book as a FULL SCHOOL, so everyone who wants to watch the videos can vote on their favorite. We will start this HOPEFULLY tomorrow. We will have a quick turnaround for voting for the first round. I will have the link for the Google Form attached to a blog post. Please click on the link and vote for your favorites.

I think that is all for now. If I think of anything else, I will just blog about it.  Maybe post a "question a day" until we are all back together!

Miss you all!
Mrs. Panther