We have reading mania at school!!!! Pearl Prins has everyone reading as many books as we can including staff, each day for the whole month. For each book that we read our school travels a mile across America. She makes it fun by letting us know how many miles we have traveled, great places we would have visited, and where we are at the present time.I mixed it up by offering my annual challenge to the students and staff to earn 5 AR points during the month and they can have their picture with Cat in the Hat.
Many of our staff have children who go to our school so they took on the challenge. They want to encourage their children to read. I will have to do mother and child pictures with Cat and the Hat. That will be extra fun. In the process these mother's have gotten many of our staff reading as a competition among the staff and the teachers are reading to encourage their students to read.
THIS IS HEALTHY EDUCATION!!!
I have just finished reading 6 books. Ok they are not chapter books but I am writing AR quizzes for books that we bought from the Book Fair.
I love being a LIBRARIAN!!!!!! I especially love encouraging our age group because they light up when they realize how WONDERFUL that reading can be!!!!
Thank You Dr. Seuss, in heaven, your books are very hot right now and every year near your birthday March 2nd. That is the last day of our contest. Hopefully we make it all the way across AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We are in Kingsport, Tennessee.
Join us and read********
3 comments:
Sounds like it is getting the kids excited to read, that is always good. I wish that I could get excited to read. :)
When you find the right book hopefully it will excite you. It helps when you have less distractions. I didn't read much when you children were young.
What a fun get away!!! I LOVE being able to leave home and have my hubby all to myself:). You guys definitely deserve it. love you so much!
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