The theme for Reading Week this year was READ: Read Explore And Discover. We stuck with our year long adventure theme. We kicked off the week early with an assembly where Mr. Wobeck dressed p like Indiana Jones and the kids heard a story, saw the teacher pie-in-the-face from the previous year, and watched PSA's we had made about reading. We were hoping to get there kids excited to participate.
Monday - Monday was Mix and Match Day. We wore awful outfits and the kids played a game where they saw a picture of the teachers with their faces behind their favorite book and they had to guess who was who.
Tuesday - Next was Tops and Toes Tuesday, where we had crazy hair and wore crazy socks. The kids did activities about different authors in their grade levels.
Wednesday - Wordy Shirt Wednesday included a contest to see which kid in each class had the most words on their shirt. Seth wrote the beginning of Wonder on his shirt and won for his class. We also played Book Bingo at the end of the day.
Thursday - Book Character Day had Seth in our Cat in the Hat costume and I was the mouse from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. That night was Literacy Night. The music teacher got sick and I had to run the performances in the MP room. We had each grade level sing a song about literacy to get more students to come out. I think it worked and more families came than the previous year.
I took a pic with Bretlyn because she loved my costume so much!
The 4th and 5th graders singing their song.
Friday - For Relax and Read Day kids could wear their pajamas and buddy read with kids from another class. It was an interesting day, because also that day, the administration put out a survey on whether the staff wanted to continue to have a librarian or if they wanted a technology teacher instead. The vote went my way, but it was very discouraging to feel so unappreciated by the administration, especially after all the extra work I had done to make Nevada Reading Week a success.
Throughout the week I told stories around my "campfire" when students visited the library.
I tracked student reading minutes, by putting this chain up around the school.
The students read enough to earn pieing two of the teacher's faces.
Students also could earn a free book and chocolate coins as a "treasure" if they filled a treasure map up by participating in the activities all week and reading each day.
It's always a rough week but the kids love it!
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