Voting Day: May the Best Designs Win

As mentioned before, Thursday was Voting Day for the Perkins School.  The whole student body was deciding which three of the nine finalists should be the designs put onto our Perkins t-shirts.  Here are our candidates:

Click on any picture to make it larger.

As you can see, each picture has a number.  That number is an easy way for a student to designate which is his or her favorite choice. It also covers the artist's name so people will vote for the design and not the person who made it.  The three drawings that get the most votes will be the winners.

Learning to vote in privacy so you can keep your choices secret (if you want to) is a little confusing at first.

The kids eventually got the hang of it.

A few kindergartens needed a hand, though, when their favorite picture was labeled with the hardest number to write!

Fold up your ballot when you put it into the box and no one knows how you voted.  That's one of the privileges of our democracy.

Some people didn't mind revealing their choices.  And, that's okay too.  

One first grader announced, "I liked number two."  Then a classmate got angry for a moment, saying, "You copied me!"  Sometimes it takes a while to realize it's good for people to be on your side when you're voting for something.

These kids all went for #5.  "I liked it because it was so creative," remarked one of them.  That unattached hand to the right of the picture is pointing to #7.  That was her choice.  Why?  "I love the earth," she answered.

So many kids, so many opinions.  What designs will win.  Come back Monday to find out.

And the T-shirt Finalists Are...

As you know, the Perkins School is having t-shirts made as a way to raise money for well needed art supplies.  All the kids who wanted to, made a piece of art that could possibly be put on the t-shirts.  If you go back to our posts from last week, you can read all about it.

Rightside Shirts has selected nine designs for us to vote on.  The top three will be offered for sale with the profits being donated for next year's art supplies.

HERE ARE THE FINALISTS...

If you can't get a good look at them from this perspective, a couple of our kids also offered to present them to you.

Start the debates.  Think about your favorites.  The vote for the winners will be tomorrow!!!

Help Ms. Murphy Help Us!

Dear Parents and Friends of the Perkins,

Our second grade teacher Mrs. Murphy has entered a contest to win new technology for our school. Helping her win will help our kids win too. Please go online and vote! All you need is an active email address to enter.

Just follow these simple steps:

1) Go to www.weareteachers.com

2) Find the “Choose One” box (top left side of screen)

and click on Grant Applicants and Voting from the pull-down menu

3) Type "Barbara Murphy" in the search box and then click search

4) Find the line that says, “We are all Writing Teachers!” – Barbara

Murphy

5) Click “Vote Now”

6) Find the “Vote for me!” box and click on that

7) Enter the information they ask for and you’re done!

While you're at it, ask all your family members to log on and vote before June 7th!

The teacher with the most votes wins!

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!