Children’s Book Week

Let’s Celebrate Children’s Book Week
May 16th-20th

Monday:   “Let’s get tied up in a good book!”-
wear a tie to school (you can make one)

Tuesday:  “Join the Reading Team”-
wear a sports jersey or t-shirt to school

Wednesday:  “Reading keeps your brain fit!”-
wear tennis shoes to school

Thursday:  “Hat’s Off to a Good Book!”-
wear a hat to school

Friday:   Dress as your favorite book character

Let’s Celebrate Dr. Seuss- Wednesday, March 2nd

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Wednesday, March 2nd, in honor of Dr. Seuss’ birthday and Read Across America, students are invited to dress as a character from a Dr. Seuss book. Students are welcome to dress like The Cat in the Hat by wearing red, white and black instead of dressing up as a character. I can’t wait to see your creativity. There will be prizes.
Thanks,
Mrs. Jones

Miércoles 2 de marzo, en honor del cumpleaños de Dr. Seuss’ y Leer por Todo América, los estudiantes están invitados a vestirse como un personaje de un libro de Dr. Seuss. Los estudiantes pueden vestirse como El Gato Ensombrerado usando rojo, blanco y negro en vez de vestirse como un personaje. Espero ver su creatividad. ¡Habrá premios!
Gracias,
Sra. Jones

World Read Aloud Day- February 24th

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Be the Story on World Read Aloud Day
By Pam Allyn, guest blogger

The best ideas come from children, and at the heart of World Read Aloud Day is a young boy’s wish for a special holiday to celebrate how good it feels to read aloud.

If we are lucky, the very mention of reading aloud strikes a resonant chord that brings to life memories of cozy nights spent with parents or grandparents before bedtime, huddled around a story. Or the lilt of a favorite teacher’s voice as she folded back the pages of a worn and treasured copy of “Charlotte’s Web” to carry on the adventures of Fern.

The impact and transforming power of stories shared aloud should not only belong to some lucky ones. Still, many millions of children exist outside the “reading club,” because of socioeconomics or a long-held belief that a reader is not something they can become.

World Read Aloud Day, created by LitWorld and proudly sponsored by Scholastic, is an invitation and joyful entry point that allows us to champion the strengths that reading brings out in every child, and is a wonderfully measurable and impactful way to cultivate lifelong readers.

On February 24, over one million people from more than 100 countries read aloud at home, school and in the workplace. Simple acts of reading kindness exchanged between classmates, family members and colleagues on World Read Aloud Day lead to positive social change in the world.

Research from the most recent Kids and Family Reading Report from Scholastic shows that one of the top predictors of students becoming strong, voracious readers is how often they hear a read aloud. Reading aloud to children every day puts them academically a year ahead of children who are not read aloud to, and that is regardless of any socioeconomic differences between children.

The innovation behind World Read Aloud Day is that it combines an activity that is inherently joyful and beloved by all ages and builds an immediate reading community where children feel they belong and can cultivate and strengthen their identity as a reader.

LitWorld is calling on all people to become a “WRADvocate” (World Read Aloud Day advocate) by sharing World Read Aloud Day with friends, family and colleagues on social media and through in-person conversations.