Week 21- Reading Celebrations!

This past week was National Read Across America Day which falls on Dr. Seuss' Birthday, World Read Aloud Day, and also the week we decided to celebrate the 3rd and 4th grade classes that read the most Bluebonnet books. So we definitely did a lot of celebrating in the library this week!

Dr. Seuss books out on display on Dr. Seuss Day! 

As you might recall from my last post, the 3rd and 4th grade classes that read the most Bluebonnet books were awarded with a surprise, and that surprise was a party. So this week on Monday and Wednesday we celebrated the two classes that won when they came to the library. When the kids entered they walked the "blue" carpet, because come on, they are reading celebrities people! Then we had a little award ceremony where we gave prizes to the top readers of every class and then other fun things to other students that participated. Afterwards, the kids could play an array of games.  Our theme this year in the library is a bowling theme, so in keeping with our theme the kids could play board games, but they could also play Wii bowling! We collaborated with our school tech team to set it all up and make it happen. It worked beautifully and the kids loved it!    

Here are a few pics of our award ceremonies       

A 4th grade student giving an acceptance speech. Too funny! 

Then it was off to play the games!

Some kids decided to play the board games...     

And others were all about the Wii bowling!

Thankfully we had two Wii stations set up! 

Then Wednesday we celebrated World Read Aloud Day in the library and throughout the Lower School. In the library we had guest readers sign up to read to the library classes. It was so fun and the kids loved having someone new read to them!  All of the books our readers shared were of course about the love of books and reading so it was perfect!  

Third graders hearing a story read by Ms. Manning, a Kindergarten teacher.  

Primer students hearing a story by our music teacher, Mrs. Holmes

Multi-age students hearing a story by Mr. Ivory, one of our great facility operators.

Second graders hearing a story from Mrs. Stenberg, our literacy specialist. 

Pre-K hearing a story read by Mrs. Young, director of our alumni relations.

First grade hearing a story by Mrs. Majefski, our Lower School Counselor. 

Everyone did such a great job reading, I was super impressed as were the kids! It was such a fun day and I have some ideas up my sleeve that I want to incorporate next year to make it even more fun. Yay for books and reading!