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Hi everyone, happy Book Day. If you don't know me, my name is Allie. I am an assistant for the

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fifth grade and also one of Pedro's third grade classes. I'm excited to read a story to you today

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and I wanted to say I hope you all are staying safe and healthy at home. I love Book Day because

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it celebrates one of my favorite hobbies which is reading um but i want to remind you all today's

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not the only day of the year you should wait it's a great way to practice learning a new language

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thinking outside of the box and um it's an especially it's especially a good activity to do

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right now so my two stories are from a book called good night stories for rebel girls

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A Hundred Tales of Extraordinary Women. I chose this book because it was International Women's

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History Month last month, and I think that's something we should celebrate all the time.

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I really recommend this book. It's for all ages, has a lot of inspiring stories. There are now two

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of them actually. So the first is about a woman named Simone Biles. Once there was a girl who

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could fly. Her name was Simone Biles. Simone was a gymnast, the greatest in American history.

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When Simone took to the mat, people couldn't take their eyes off her. She was so fast, so strong,

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so flexible, so agile. She flew through the air with such grace and speed,

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twisting and turning, landing perfectly each time. Simone started gymnastics when she was just six

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years old. By the time she was 18, she had already won so many medals that when she traveled to Rio

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for the Olympics, everyone expected her to win not one, but five medals. One day, a journalist

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asked her, how do you deal with that kind of pressure? I try not to think about it. Right now,

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my goal is to be more consistent on the uneven bars. What about the goal of winning a gold medal?

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A medal can't be a goal, Simone replied, smiling. It's like my mom always says, if doing your best

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means you come out top, on top, that's awesome. If it means that you finish fourth, that's awesome

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two. Simone's mom adopted her when Simone was three. She taught Simone that staying humble

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and doing your best is the only way to live a meaningful life and to inspire everyone around

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you. At the Olympics in Rio, Simone won five medals, four of them gold. Simone was born on

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March 14th, 1997. So she's 23 years old. You're younger than me. This is an illustration of her

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on the right. It says, I was built this way for a reason, so I'm going to use it. What I like about

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Simone's story is her mom always encouraged her to try her hardest and her best. That's what my mom

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did too, and I think that's all you can ask for. And she's been so successful and so inspiring to

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so many young boys and girls. My second story is about Marie Curie, the scientist. She was born

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on November 7th, 1967. Once in Poland, there was a secret school. People called it the floating

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university. Government at that time was very strict about what people could and couldn't study.

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Girls were not allowed to go to college at all. Marie and her sister were students at the secret

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school. They were tired of hiding. One day, they heard that in Paris, there was a university.

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called the Sorbonne, which accepted girls, so they decided to move to France. Marie was fascinated by

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metals and magnets. She found out that some minerals were radioactive. They gave off powerful

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rays and glowed in the dark. To analyze these minerals' properties, Marie would set them on fire,

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melt them, filter them, and stay up all night to watch them glow. Don't try that at home.

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Radiation is used to treat many diseases, but it is also very dangerous.

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Just imagine that, after all these years, Marie's notebooks and instruments are still radioactive.

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If you want to look at them, you have to wear protective clothing and gloves.

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Marie's husband, Pierre, was so intrigued by her research that he decided to drop his work on crystals to join her.

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Together, they discovered two new radioactive elements.

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Polonium and Radium. Marie Curie won two Nobel prizes for her work, and she could have made a

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lot of money from her discoveries. She chose instead to make her research available to anyone

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for free. The quote on the right says, nothing in life is to be feared, it only is to be understood.

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The last thing that I want to show you is the website that the authors of this book

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made it has a lot of free activities and resources so um first of all i suggest you all

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listen to this podcast um which is an online voice recording about greta thunberg the activist

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who is still a girl she's still a child and she is fighting for a future and saving our planet

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So especially since yesterday was birthday, I think this is a really important thing to listen to.

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So if you click podcast on rebelgirls.com, you can access all of these audio files for free and listen to other stories.

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and if you go to free activities

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there are journaling, business plans, planting a garden, writing a program

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and because the authors know that a lot of kids are learning at home right now

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they're making them all free and if your parent gives you permission

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they let you use their email you can get them sent to you

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um so I hope you all enjoyed this um once again I hope you're staying safe and um I really miss

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being with you all and seeing you all at school um I hope you enjoy your reading um during the day

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and um yeah lots of love bye