Teacher Thursday!

*Disclaimer...If you are not a teacher, you will probably want to skip this post*

Seymour Simon came to visit my school today for an Author's Visit. It was pretty neat. If you don't automatically know who I'm talking about, he has written over 250 science books for kids. Here are a few of the books...

He talked to the kids about space and it was fascinating! He explained to us just how big our universe is with little bouncy balls. If you imagine Earth as a small ball, then the whole library (and it's big) would be the Sun. wow!

One more fun fact that I learned today was an example of how many stars are in our galaxy (Milky Way)  If we filled our entire school with sand, floor to ceiling, and counted each grain...there would STILL be more stars in the galaxy. That's hard to even fathom.

Nerd Alert! 

Here is a picture of me with Seymour Simon. He loved me...I saved his presentation with my technology skills. Holler! 

I was a bit bummed that the ONLY book I could find at the last minute was this book on Spiders. YUCK! I hate spiders...but an autograph is an autograph I suppose.

All in all, it was a good time. His website is pretty amazing too. Check it out...especially his blog. There's a great post on BED BUGS! Ahhh!  www.seymoursimon.com