Boys Rule Boys Read!: A Shout Out

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

A Shout Out

The Iron Guy would like to give a great big shout out to the fourth-graders at Metrolina Regional Scholars Academy. They sent in a whole lot of comments yesterday and I was very glad to get them. Normally I'd try to write a post to include all of them but there are so many comments that I couldn't possibly include them all, so I'll just direct you to look at these posts and see what those guys and girls had to say:

Iron Guys' Top 5 for 2011 (they sent in a bunch of comments for this one)

SAMMER Starts the Year Right

The Iron Guy's New Year's Resolution

Thanks, everyone! Keep reading and writing and commenting!

2 comments:

sarahrocks85 said...: Thanks for the shout out! I'm sarahrocks85 from that fourth grade class and I just want to ask, but.... is the girls reading blog have a open position? I do have a blogger account, and I made this a comment because I am not the only girl who wants to not type boys....... you know. ( Not true ).; January 18, 2012 at 5:50 PM
Iron Guy Carl said...: I'm not sure which girl's reading blog you mean, sarahrocks85. The library used to have one but the person who ran it got laid off a couple of years ago. Does it still show up?; January 18, 2012 at 6:12 PM

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