April 30th, 2018

Sharon Aubrey teaches the first group of K-2 students.

This weekend author Sharon Aubrey from Relevant Publishers LLC participated in the Young Writers' Conference in Palmer, Alaska.  This conference was open to all school age children between  Kindergarten and 5th Grade in the Matanuska-Susitina Borough School District.  There were approximately 300 children that attended the conference. 

Ms. Aubrey taught three different groups of students, totaling 54 children in grades K-2 about the writing process.  She also shared with them the story of Mimsy Mouse Searches for a New Home by Linda N. Walz and Stephan Linton.  All the children loved Ms. Walz's story and many were excited to learn Ms. Walz was a grandmother writing new books.  Many kids hope to read the entire series of Mimsy's adventures on Farmer Brown's farm.  

After learning about the parts of a story, Ms. Aubrey challenged students to write their own stories about a moose who had a dream or talent that the other moose didn't understand.  These moose were not "normal."  Students had to come up with a problem for their moose and a solution.  The stories the children created were so imaginative that there was one moose who landed on the moon.  A different moose went ice skating.  Another moose wanted to operate an ice cream truck but was too big to fit through the truck doors.  A magic shrinking potion helped him accomplish his goal to fit through the doors and sell ice cream cones to children.  We also had a moose that got lost accidentally boarding a barge and went to the city.  And there was a moose named Bruce with a loose tooth who couldn't eat his regular food, so he had to drink milkshakes.  There were even a few moose that were like Mimsy Mouse and lived on a farm and needed help from their friends to find a new home. 

Overall, it was a wonderful and educational day! 

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