{"id":3082,"date":"2010-01-31T16:02:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T16:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/?p=3082"},"modified":"2011-05-29T17:57:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-29T17:57:09","slug":"wheres-simon-sandy-storytime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/school-news\/wheres-simon-sandy-storytime\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s Simon, Sandy?  &#8211; Storytime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3081\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"wheres-simon-jan-2009\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.provoprimaryblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/wheres-simon-jan-2009.jpg?resize=460%2C248\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"248\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Donna Seim, author of &#8216;Where&#8217;s Simon, Sandy?&#8217; came once again to visit us and share with us her wonderful story about a local, Grand Turk, donkey that wouldn&#8217;t quit.\u00a0 Children in JK through to Year 1 thoroughly enjoyed the story and took the opportunity to ask Donna lots of interesting questions about it and about being an author.\u00a0 David Bowen, our Director of Culture, accompanied her, bringing his trusty blow-horn conch shell with him. What a noisy shell it is!<\/p>\n<p>Donna&#8217;s book won a &#8216;Mum&#8217;s Choice Award&#8217; last year and certainly got the thumbs up from our children.\u00a0 Thank you again,\u00a0 Donna.<\/p>\n<p>Donna has also worked hard to connect our school with a school back in her home town in Newburyport,\u00a0 Massachusetts.\u00a0 Children there wrote penpal letters to our Years 2, 3 and 4 children and they have written back to them.\u00a0 Unfortunately, our letters are still travelling in the post.\u00a0 Fingers crossed they won&#8217;t take too much longer to arrive.\u00a0 We look forward to our next letters and seeing Donna again the next time she comes down to visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donna Seim, author of &#8216;Where&#8217;s Simon, Sandy?&#8217; came once again to visit us and share with us her wonderful story about a local, Grand Turk, donkey that wouldn&#8217;t quit.\u00a0 Children in JK through to Year 1 thoroughly enjoyed the story and took the opportunity to ask Donna lots of interesting questions about it and about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,1],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5332,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3082\/revisions\/5332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/provolearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}