Can You Try a Lttile Harder, Miss Shannon?

Last week at school we read the story Traffic. Traffic is a gripping tale of the counting of different vehicles in a busy urban city. At the end of the tale there is a horrendous traffic jam. The cause of the jam are 10 ducklings crossing the street among all the vehicles. 

Ok, to the video, as we were reading the story, my co-worker mentioned a hotel in Memphis that had these ducks that walk on a red carpet.  I told my students I would look for a video of this, I kept forgetting to look and I would said to the kids, "I will look tonight, I promise."This went on for several days.  Yesterday, right before the kids were going down for a resting time a little boy came up to me (clearly a stall tactic for going to sleep) and said, Miss Shannon, can you try a little harder to find the ducks on the red carpet."  This, for those who know me, could very well be my lifetime motto.. perseverance  is so not a strong character trait of me and it all started with the peppermint patties =) 

Today at school, we will watch the video...enjoy boys and girls!!  

There are several Peabody Hotels in different cities around the country-- this video happens to be taken at the Peabody in Orlando. 

For those of you who are thinking... I read this silly story this far, I might as well read some more about this subject. here is some history of the Peabody Hotel and their famous ducks.  Heck they must be famous- they've been on Oprah.