September 29th "Pet Pals"

Remote READer dog! Today the dogs and I went to North Haven Island. Took the ferry out of Rockland - takes about 1 hour to arrive on North Haven. Holly (friend from high school) is a teacher out there - we developed a program for long distance READer dog with the kids there in K-4th grade - "Pet Pals" ... We introduced the program and had the kids meet the dogs - they read to them, got book marks... I made up doggie bags(pens, pencils, beanie dog, stickers) for each of the 3 classes (K has 2 children, combined grades 1/2 has 6 and grades 3/4 has 7 kids) The children will read to the stuffed animal (Baby Rissa and Baby Timber) then write the dogs as pen pals what they read or what adventure they took the stuffed dogs on. The program will develop/evolve into what best suits the teacher and class. The girls had a good time with all the kids. They did very well on the ferry ride - first time for them on a boat that size. A long day but it is so easy to take Timber and Rissa anywhere - they just go with the flow and adapt to whatever adventure I take them on. I have some very cute pictures of the kids with the dogs - will not post them on the internet. Picture of the front and back of the bags I did and the girlz on the ferry.