Royal Read~A~Thon

Our Royal Read~A~Thon was a huge success no matter what the final numbers turn out to be.  These students accomplished so many great reading goals in the last ten days.  Today we celebrated with our royal robes and crowns.  We even had a mini parade to see all the reading crowns.  Our first graders have the royal wave down!

Throughout the Read~A~Thon, students tracked participation with jewels.  The children earned jewels for every sponsor, every reading club attendance, and every thirty minutes of reading.  The children loved to pick out their new jewels.  It is a good thing the read-a-thon only lasted ten days because some of the crowns are getting heavy!



Every day of the read-a-thon, our librarian Mrs. Jensen has hosted reading club.  The attendance was spectacular.  Each day we had 90-110 children in the library READING!  Amazing!  The library was packed.  It was so fun to see students running to the library to get every minute in.



In addition to making sure reading club was available to all our students, Mrs. Jensen also greatly enhanced our kingdom of reading by introducing our students to different book genres. Mrs. Jensen put together baskets of books for six different reading genres: informational text, mystery, traditional literature, fantasy, biography, and poetry. Each day, one of the 1st or 2nd grade classrooms got their genre basket and spent the day exploring the books.  We always did something called a book pass.  Students got a minute to page through the book and then pass it to the next student.  The genre basket was available to the students all day if they wanted to dive deeper into one of the books they saw in the book pass.  Then, the next day, we would get a different genre collection.  Several students wrote down books that they would like to check out of the library later.  It was so great to hear the children talking about genres that interest them and see the children so excited about books.  Thank you, Mrs. Jensen!