Good Morning,
Yesterday I sent home new book order forms. I will be placing the order on Tuesday of next week. If you wish to order, please return it by then. We continue to work on our Read to Feed project and video. The students are getting really excited to start this. Below is an outline of the project.
What: Read to Feed is a reading incentive service-learning program that offers global education opportunities and will foster in children a love for reading, a passion to help others and a motivation to help create a better world.
Why: This was a student driven idea and it fit feel with our goal of making a difference in the world. The idea is that students will realize their actions can make a difference.
When: The students will keep track of the books or chapters they read during the month of February. On Thursday, January 30th, the students will bring home a folder that will allow them to keep track of their reading. This will take the place of the weekly reading logs (so you're not filling the same information out twice).
How: Next week I will have a video that I will post on the blog. Your child can ask relatives, friends, neighbors, etc. to sponsor them for the amount of reading they do during the month of February. The idea will be that they can email the video link to people. The video will be of the students explaining the project in their own words. We had a class discussion about this today. We will be collecting as a class and not keeping track of who raised the most. We want to make a difference as a group and work together as a team to do this. We also talked about students who are reading chapter books and the idea that it will take longer to read one. Students who are reading chapter books can ask to be sponsored for each chapter they read rather than book.
Benefit: Students are helping people in need. They are making a difference on a global stage, and they are excited to read! I have already had students asking if they can read more at night or do weekend reading. I told them that if they "twisted my arm", that I would allow them to read more.
Information: Here is the link for the project: http://www.heifer.org/readtofeed/index.html?msource=FERFG120001&utm_source=Education&utm_medium=Friendly_URL&utm_campaign=Read_to_Feed . I ask that all checks be made out to Waitsfield Elementary School. I will then have the school write one check to the organization. We will not be using the online collection process.
Please let me know if you have any questions.
Peace,
Tommy
