Exciting Day!

Last Thursday may have been the most exciting day so far in my professional career! For the last few months one of my fellow 1st grade teachers and myself have been piloting a new literacy program called Key Links. It is written by a lady named Jill Eggleton, who is a well know children's author from New Zealand. Through out the program we have met with people from the publishing company and talked about the program, apparently only a few schools across the US were picked to pilot it.

We had our final wrap up meeting last Thursday with the ladies from the publishing company and ladies from our school district. During our meeting we learned that not only are they using our feedback to use in their advertising of the product (which is a little intimidating!)we were also told that the author, Jill Eggleton is coming to our school!! I know, it may not sound like that big of a deal but we are super excited! My kids are excited because we have been reading her books for months, they talk about her like they know her! I'm just excited because its not everyday that an author flies half way across the world to come to Little Rock, Arkansas! It truly is a great honor that our school was picked to be the only one she visits with and we cannot wait! There will be pictures coming at the end of April!