Every year we have a reading month at school. Students from preschool to grade eight are encouraged to record the pages and time they spend with books during the three weeks. These records are used to award prizes to various age groups at the end of the month - Lusy won a second place in her class for number of pages read in the month (hers were mostly read to her which is fine). Also during the month, we have guest readers in classrooms, fun days like -wearing readable clothing to school, getting "caught reading" spot prizes and other special activities like Read-The-Day-Aways - this is where students come to school in pj's with a cuddly toy and pillow and pretty much spend the day reading in the classroom. Students are also invited as guest readers to other classrooms - Lucy had grade 8 students come and read to her class and Aimee's class visited the preschool to read to them.
The month is finished off with a character parade. Students and staff members
dress up as characters from books and parade to the
LRC to have a special reading time before lunch. Obviously now mom must rush around and come up with a decent recognizeable costume for each of them :( Last minute dash, Aimee went as "Amy the Amethyst Fairy" and Lucy as "Lucy the Diamond Fairy".
(photos to follow)
2 comments:
Wonderful! My girls say they wish they could have been there. I know Kyra wishes that The Daisy Meadows Clan would write a book with her name:)
We cant wait to see these photos!
And what did you go as ?
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