Congratulations to our bookmark design contest winners for this year's One School One Book, Because of the Rabbit! WillowdaleElementary #Proud2bMPS

Students are browsing the Book Fair making their wish lists. Our Book Fair opens after school today and runs through February 16! Hours and information are posted on our school web site. Happy Reading! WillowdaleElementary

Shout out to these 19 amazing 4th and 5th graders who represented Willowdale so well at today's Golden Sower Quiz Bowl! They love to read and showed it! ❤️💙

Celebrating Earth Day (April 22) this week. So many great stories of just one person making a difference in their communities & world. Challenged our 2nd graders today to see how long they can reuse the bookmark they designed from recycled paper. #EarthDay2022 WillowdaleElementary

OPL's Summer Reading Program begins today! Reading prizes for children and adults.👍 Fun free programming too!

Just because books are boxed up for the summer doesn't mean our students can't have fun reading! Check out books at Wheeler (see attached) or Reeder (Tuesdays 8:30-11:30am: June 7, 14, 21, 28, July 12, 19 (books due by 7/26). Big thanks to our friends at Wheeler & Reeder!

Join us for a fun storytime taking place this week at #OmahaLibrary! 🌳 Out & About Storytime: Chalco Hills, Mon, 10:30am 👚 Online Pajama Storytime Live, Tue, 6pm 🌼Out and About Storytime: Omaha Permaculture, Thru, 10:30am See the storytime schedule at bit.ly/3MhWxbk.

Omaha Public Library will host Chris Grabenstein author of the Mr. Lemoncello's Library series. Tuesday, June 7, at 4 pm, Grabenstein will talk about his newest book, Mr. Lemoncello's Very First Game. OPL will raffle 10 autographed books to attendees. Register here: bit.ly/3PX4ANN

Come to our first Summer Storytime at 9:30am today out on the front patio. Bring a beach towel if you can to sit on and enjoy our sunny stories and fun! 🌞📚

We had a great time last week during our Tuesday storytime. Come join us today at 9:30am near the Willowdale front patio for some more stories and fun! WillowdaleElementary

Willowdale families! Be sure to stop through the library during School Fest on Monday (5:30-7pm). We can't wait for you to see our summer updates! Thanks, PTO, for making it possible! ❤️💙 WillowdaleElementary

3rd grade learning about some of our new "engineering" stations in our updated Willowdale Library. Students are proud of their ideas and creations! WillowdaleElementary #LuvMPSLibrary #Proud2bMPS

Happy International Dot Day! Students are working on our Dot mural for the library and Mrs. K. was feeling in the mood for creating some dot art in Doodle Buddy. We're making the world a more colorful place❤️💙💚💜💛🧡WillowdaleElementary International Dot Day

Author visit day with Aaron Reynolds. Lots of smiles and laughter from our WillowdaleElementary readers! Millard Public Schools

5th graders during their Wax Museum project are researchers, writers, historians, and (with the Keynote app) digital artists too. Love seeing their final projects come to life. WillowdaleElementary

Golden Sower Club finished an AMAZING chat with nominee Christina Li. She read an excerpt from her book & answered questions from our readers. Did you know Li published Clues to the Universe, her 1st novel, when she was only 21 years old? What an inspiration! ❤️📚

Creativity, imagination, collaboration, problem solving and more happening in 5th grade at one of our makerspace Lego tables. ❤️🧡💛💜💚💙 WillowdaleElementary MPS Elem Ed

Thank you, Jerry Pallotta, for coming to WillowdaleElementary today! Your amazing experiences and insight into how you get your ideas and writing your stories had us hooked (just like all those ocean animals)! 😀

5th grade students finishing up Keynote digital portraits for their Wax Museum project. WillowdaleElementary

3rd grade researchers checking their facts using professional online databases like PebbleGo & school library books. It takes multiple sources to do quality research & the source of the information matters. Keeping books updated is important.