March 12- 16, 2018 ~ This week was the 9th Annual Midway Heights Read-A-Thon put on by the Partners in Education. It's such a fun week and one that the students (and staff) look forward to having each year. Everyone works together as a team to make sure this event is successful and we pair it with a Reading Challenge to show the importance of reading!
This years theme was Fairy Tales!
Every year we rotate our themes so that as a student enters Kindergarten and leaves the school at the end of their 5th grade year they never have the same theme twice. (Creating these themes were a little challenging but now that we have them created it's so nice to just change a few things or add in something new and fun and roll with it!)
Throughout the week we have guest
readers come to the school and visit a classroom, just one reader per
classroom per day, to read a book to the students and then talk about
why reading is important in their jobs. It's really awesome to see
radio/TV personalities, police officers, highway patrol, sheriff
department deputy's, retired teachers, grandparents, and many more
people come to our school during this awesome week!
We use Twitter to post pictures using #mheread if you want to see some of our guest readers throughout the week!
We know that there are several kiddos that don't want to read or has to be somewhat bribed to read (that was me many moons ago) outside of school but this week inspires them to read every day! Just knowing this is a huge part of any career path you may choose and the more reading they do the better their vocabulary will become! I can say that there are certainly lots of kiddos who do love to read and sometimes it's just takes time or possibly finding the right kind of books to keep them interested in reading.
The PIE's holding little pie's on Pi Day!
I am so lucky to have an amazing Partner in Crime.... er..... Partner in Education! Tanya Alberty with D and H Drugstore has been a Partner in Education for 9 years at Midway Heights Elementary School! She has been awesome to work with and is by far the "techy" one of us and keeps us organized and structured! Of course I like to laminate things.... something they all laugh about but I like things clean and neat! We truly make a great team!
The Eversole's with Spectrum Utilities are also a PIE along with us and we couldn't do what we do without great supporters like them! Thanks y'all!
On Thursday morning we had a guest Storyteller, Priscilla Howe come to Midway Heights Elementary School to have two assemblies for the students. She did a great job and the kiddos really enjoyed having her! She had two puppets that came with her and they were a hoot too!
During this week long Read-A-Thon that includes a Reading Challenge we also add in Literacy Night! On Thursday night we have a family fun event at the school from 6:00 -7:30 PM that is geared towards our theme and reading. This year we had Hanzel and Gretel Snacks, Plant A Magic Bean Stalk, Too Hard Too Soft Musical Chairs, Fairy tale BINGO and more! Each student received a goody bag that included a free book from Scholastic!
Students were encouraged to dress as their favorite fairy tale character - these were some creative kiddos.... love the 3 Little Pigs that is siblings and the little Mary Poppins! So stinkin' cute!
This year marks our 10th year of being a Partner in Education with Midway Heights Elementary School in Columbia, MO. This is the same elementary school I went to from Kindergarten through 6th grade and it was this school, along with many of the teachers I had through the years helped shape me into who I am today and because of that I wanted to give back in a meaningful way to this wonderful little country school located in Midway!
Thank you to everyone involved in making the 9th Annual Read-A-Thon a huge success! The students at Midway Heights Elementary School were given a 40,000 minute Reading Challenge for the whole school during a specific time period and if they reached this goal they would get a Kona Ice Party. Well, I've already told you that this is an awesome little school and the students actually read a total of.......
54,949 total minutes!!!
You guessed it... They won a Kona Ice Party!
Thank you Chris and Cathy Cook for bringing your party trucks out to celebrate!
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