Ashley had an idea towards the end of last year to see if her school could read 1 million pages in 1 school year so we made a PowerPoint presentation to tell the principal about it. Over the summer, we sent it to him and he actually let her start the program! To kick it off, Ashley had to give a 5-minute speech in front of the entire school (over 500 students) telling them about the idea and motivating them to start reading. I created a form for the kids to fill out and am now in charge of collecting the forms and keeping track of the pages read. Plus we made a poster that will keep track of the pages which we called a "Page-O-Meter".
It's probably going to be a bit of work for me, but it's totally worth it since it's allowing Ashley to have this amazing experience of having an idea and seeing it come to fruition. We also bought trophies for each grade level and every month the classroom of each grade that reads the most pages gets to keep the trophy for the next month.
So far the kids have read over 4000 pages!
Ashley is so excited and hopefully we'll make the goal by June!
Comments
P.S. I miss you like crazy!