Go Jets Go!

There was a contest on the Winnipeg Jets website for February for the chance to have one or two Jets come and read to your class... and we won! There were over 2100 students who entered the contest (including 9 people from our classroom), and Maddie's entry was one of the lucky ones chosen (there were only 14 students in the city that were picked)! It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience to have some of the Jets come to our classroom to read a book to us - it was so cool! The two Jets who came to our class were Adam Pardy and Dustin Byfuglien (they were as tall as Mr. Hoeppner!). They read a book (called 'The Home Team') to our class when they got here, and gave us each a copy of the book, so that we could follow along with them while they read. After they read the book, we got to ask the players questions about whatever we wanted to, such as "What hobbies do you have?", "How did you lose your tooth?", "What kind of pranks do you play on each other?", and "Who annoys you the most?". After the Q&A was done, we got autographs from the players - they signed our books, our jerseys, sweaters, hats, and anything else we had - it was awesome. The players signed their jerseys, and Maddie picked Dustin Byfuglien's jersey to keep, because she was a contest winner, while we got to keep Adam Pardy's jersey to display in our classroom. When the other classrooms found out that the Jets were in our room, they all wanted to come and get their autographs, but the contest was only for our classroom, not the whole school - unfortunately, they wouldn't have had enough time to meet everyone and sign autographs for them (but some of the other teachers snuck in anyway!). So ,Mrs. Folkerts (our principal) got the players to sign their autographs on a piece of paper, and then made copies for the rest of the students in the school. As the Jets left our room, we were yelling/chanting "GO JETS GO!!!" To top off the afternoon, we were having a school assembly for I Love To Read month right after that, and Adam Pardy and Dustin Byfuglien were generous enough to stop by and say 'Hello' to the whole school... and everyone went crazy! Thank you to Dustin Byfuglien and Adam Pardy for coming to our classroom - it was a Jets-tastic afternoon!

- the students of Room 18


A HUGE thank you to the Winnipeg Jets for running the contest to promote reading, and for selecting Maddie's entry out of so many that were submitted - we couldn't believe how fortunate we were! As well, thanks so much to Adam Pardy and Dustin Byfuglien - they could not have been more gracious (and funny!) with the kids. This will be something the students (and I!) will always remember - Go Jets Go!!!

- Mr. H.