Read Across America: Celebrating with Guest Readers!
In the month before our celebration, our librarian ceaselessly contacts people from our community. This year, for retired teachers, she called the retired teacher association. For preservice teachers, she spoke to the dean of education from our university. And for community members, she called every news station, law enforcement agency, and any other individual she could reach through word of mouth!
Some of our friends served as beautiful guest readers. My husband, a videographer/photographer, our dear friend, a counselor,
another of our friends, the constable,
The mascot, Chico, from our local minor league baseball team, the El Paso Chihuahuas, also came to read aloud to our kids! He brought his buddy and they read a cute book adapted from Curious George Goes to the Ballpark. The kids could not stop laughing.
We also hosted Rick Cabrera, a newscaster, and Mark Negrete, an author.
Overall, I think we had about 30 retired teachers, 20 preservice teachers, and over 35 community members. That’s incredible! Our librarian is the best!
Each reader left with a small token of our appreciation: a notepad, pencil, pen, and pin, all tied up with adorable Seuss ribbon we found at Wal-Mart.
This is my hunnybun reading aloud – clearly with lots of expression – to a third grade class. He chose to read The Day the Crayons Quit because when he read it, he couldn’t stop cracking up! He (and the kids) especially liked the page where the peach crayon is naked. Because he has the sense of humor of an eight-year-old boy.
That sounds like an amazing day! Thanks for posting all of the pictures. Those are some lucky kiddos to have all that special attention!