On Monday, May 10th we kick off Right to Read week at Madeira Elementary School. So many great activities are planned for the students. Our school has become infested with insects as we've caught the reading bug! We will have an assembly on Monday morning to get things started and then some of the highlights for the week include a book swap, an author/illustrator visit by David Biedrzycki, Young Author night and a parade to wrap it all up on Friday. BIG FUN!!!The following week is our annual Got Art? week. One of the many events will be the Frisch Marionettes performing the Jungle Book for us. With these two big weeks coming up, I have spent the last several weeks doing some pre-teaching for our activities during Right to Read and Got Art? weeks. We have become familiar with David Biedrzycki's works and have done a Jungle Book study throughout all grade levels.
What a fantastic year we have had in the MES media center! Mrs. Cunningham and I have enjoyed every single day that you have shared your children with us. Our goal is to teach our students to love to read. I cannot tell you how exciting it is to see a child transition from a reluctant reader to a voracious reader. We've seen that this year and it is great! Thank you too for your support from home. Our new Love Our Library program was wildly successful with 175 participants and the Scholastic Book Fair was so successful that we were able to purchase a SMARTboard for the media center.
Please visit the public library often and keep your children reading throughout the summer!
