Festival of Stories

The Elementary School at SAS celebrated Festival of Stories this week.  They had several days and activities devoted to stories, writing, and illustrating.  Evan was looking forward to dressing up for the culmination day: Character Dress Up Day.  He decided he wanted to be a YOP from Dr. Seuss's One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish.  He chose the character and assembled the outfit entirely on his own (So Evan) and he was ready at least a week ahead of time.  He asked me every single day (even weekends) how many days there were until Character dress-up day.  He loved meeting the Author and Artist in Residence (as did Ryan: they had a different author and illustrator visit the older kids) and they even got a signed copy of Todd Parr's book!








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