"I Love to Read Month" Comes to an End

We just finished up "I Love to Read Month."  We had an olympic theme, and all month long the students recorded minutes read at home.  Our goal was to read a total of 7,000 minutes in order to earn the gold medal.  Our class did so awesome on this challenge, and we even reached the gold medal goal 1 week early!  Way to go 1st and 2nd graders!

 Throughout the month we added books we love, characters we love,

 and pictures of us reading to our banner. 

 This was the poster that we tracked our minutes read at home.

Each circle represented 100 minutes.

 We were so excited to receive our gold medals on Friday!

Olympic Reading Kick-Off!

For I Love to Read Month this year, we are focusing on an Olympic theme and the slogan "If You Can Read, You Can Succeed!"  Friday morning we kicked off our month with Opening Ceremonies at Family Time.  The teachers passed the torch as a representative from each class accepted each team banner.  It was so fun to see the students get excited and cheer for each other!  Our first event of the month was buddy reading.  We were paired up with the 6th grade class.  It is such a treat for the students in our class to share a good book with an older friend.  I also enjoy seeing past students!  Thanks 6th graders for being such great reading partners! We are off to a great start of our Olympic Reading Games!