Area Schools Celebrate
READING
Jody Richards Elementary Spring Book Fair Feb. 7-15. Read Across America Read-AThon Feb. 25-Mar. 1, collecting money for students in need McNeill Elementary I Love to Read Week (Feb. 11-15) community volunteers will read a favorite book to classes and share how they use reading in their daily lives in addition to other planned activities. Read Across America (week of March 2) – celebrating Dr. Seuss’ Birthday with activities and the Spring Book Fair. DEAR Day (Apr. 12) – Students & teachers will drop everything and read for a 30 minute time period. Parker Bennett Curry April 11-19 – Spring Book Fair Warren East Middle School Feb. 12 - Girl’s Night Out for mothers and daughters with bonding activities using book titles as themes for the activities. March 12 - Guy’s Night Out for fathers and sons. April - “Book Fair” where students will set up with books they have read from the Kentucky Bluegrass Award list, much like a Science Fair, only with books.
Oh, The Places You’ll Go! with Books from the Library
The best guarantee for future academic success is both simple and fun, and you don’t have to spend anything but time to make a great investment in it – reading! Parents love it, librarians live by it, and research proves it: readers make great learners. And when books and reading are used as springboards for conversation and play, families can make their own stories as words leap from the page into imaginations forever. Since learning and reading are so vitally interconnected, parents who want to put their children on the path to academic success can follow this simple strategy: visit the library, read together, savor the stories, repeat. It’s never too soon to start the process, it’s never too late to make a difference, and your friends at Warren County Public Library would love to see every child’s story start at their library. Reading celebrations are in full gear this season – with Love Your Library month taking place in February, Read Across America in March, and National Library Week in April –- and the public library is excited to offer numerous activities for all ages during those times. In About the author: Ashley Fowlkes is the addition to weekly programs for school Assistant Director at Warren County age children, preschoolers, toddlers, Public Library. She loves to read, as do and babies, all library locations will her three children, ages 4, 7, and 13. be hosting special events, so take some Graduate school brought her husband time to coordinate your calendar and and her to Kentucky; they have called ours ( warrepl.org/calendar2.html). < Bowling Green home since 1998.
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