Education & Scholarship Briefs

StoryTrail event for kids at Bayshore

The Shelton Timberland Library and the Capitol Land Trust host a StoryTrail event from Saturday through the end of August at the Bayshore Preserve, at 3800 state Route 3, 3 miles north of Shelton.

StoryTrails combine a love of nature and reading. Pages from the children’s book “How to Find a Bird” by Jennifer Ward will be spaced out along the Johns Creek Trail in large signs. Birding concepts from the book will unfold and come to life as children progress through the pages along the trail. The book is designed for children preschool through the third grade.

A kickoff event is hosted from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday. Kids can make bird-themed crafts, play bird bingo and borrow binoculars to study birds and the preserve, the former site of a golf course. The preserve is open from dawn to dusk every day.

The Harstine Island Theatre Club

The Harstine Island Theatre Club is offering a $500 scholarship.

Allocations and guidelines are available at CHOICE, Cedar, Shelton, Mary M. Knight and North Mason high schools, and at Olympic College Shelton.

Aug. 1 is the deadline to apply, and the winner will be announced by Aug. 15. Completed applications can be mailed to HI Theatre Club, Dee Anne Meacham, P.O. Box 1054, Shelton, WA 98584. For more information, call Meacham at 360-481-5038.

Share thoughts on music curriculum

The Shelton School District us going through an adoption process for elementary school curriculum and everyone is invited to view the choices and offer comments.

The options the district are considering include MusicPlay and Quaver Music. The music curriculum options are on display through Friday at the front desk at the district headquarters at 700 S. First St. Comment forms are available in English and Spanish.

Following the adoption process, the adoption committee will use public comment, internal checklists and the state Office of Public Instruction’s antibias tool to make a recommendation to the Instructional Materials Committee. That committee will make a final recommendation to the school board.