One of our concentrations this year as a school is on
increasing reading comprehension skills.
If you want to read more about that, click here. We have employed a variety of skills each
month to help our students attack words, learn to infer, use contextual clues
and more. To really hone these skills,
they need direct application. Considering
this and knowing that the best way for students to become better readers is to
actually read more, I embarked on a reading challenge for the month of
February.
We set a goal as a school to read at least 1750 books during
the month of February. Preschool
students will read 300, elementary will read 1000, middle school will read 300
and high school will read 150. The class
that has the highest percentage of participation AND the highest number of
books read will receive a class party from me.
If we reach our goals, our students will get to celebrate by getting to
duct tape me, the principal, to the wall in our multi-purpose room.
I have been amazed at the response from our students! During the first week alone, we had over 600
books turned in as read. We are writing
the names of books, authors and students that read them on strips and making
paper chains in the hallway. Students
love seeing their class. They want to
get more up there than the other classes. I just love seeing that they are reading!
Students have been coming up to me and saying, “I’m going to
tape you to the wall!” or “I’ve been reading every night, Mrs. Tigges” and that
brings me such excitement. Parents have
been telling me how much their kids want to read and it may cost me a little
duct tape, but the end result will be SO WORTH IT!!!!!
Stay tuned for pictures of the duct tape event when our
students meet their goals!
- Mrs. TIgges
