较低的学校 students eagerly checked their progress on a hallway Read-o-Meter toward 2,100 hours of reading 和 prizes along the way. Would they make it to the ultimate prize of a sliming?

准备，准备，阅读!

In announcing the annual 较低的学校 Read-a-Thon from January 23-29, librarian 克里斯汀罗伯 P’24, ’26 told the community, “Starting on Monday, January 23, let’s reduce our screen time 和 READ! After reading each day, students in Nursery 和 Pre-K should put a sticker on the reading log that was sent home, 和 Kindergarten – Grade 4 students, as well as teachers 和 staff, should complete 和 submit the virtual reading log. All reading counts — you may read to yourself, read to a family member (including pets 和 stuffed animals), or have a family member read aloud to you. Even reading homework counts!”

What was the gr和 prize? If the goal of 2,100 hours of reading was met, Head of 较低的学校 弗朗西斯Yasharian P’36, librarian Robb, 和 security officer 薛西斯防御率 would be slimed at an assembly on Friday, February 3!

When students reached the first goal of 42,000 minutes (700 hours), there was a cupcake party. At the point of reaching the second goal of 84,000分钟(1),400 hours) all students participated in a cupcake party 和 received a special Read-a-Thon notebook 和 pen. As a special surprise, 较低的学校’s Blue Devil mascot went around to each classroom promoting reading 和 distributing the notebook 和 pen.

Dress Like a Book 字符 Day

The Read-O-Meter was moving up past 1,400 hours when the students celebrated Dress Like a Book 字符 Day on Friday, 1月27日. At arrival, Wilbur the pig from 夏洛特的网 greeted students as they excitedly  hopped from the bus. They could see that Wilbur had the smiling face of Dr. Yasharian, who was accompanied by the spider (Kimberly Davis Rivizzigno, Director of Family Engagement) 和 the farmer (肯尼斯•汉密尔顿, Assistant Head of 较低的学校) from the same story. Also arriving at 较低的学校 were Dory Fantasmagory, a number of Harry Potters 和 Hermiones, Mary Poppins, 金发女孩, 猫皮特, 玛蒂尔达, 和 even a Titanic complete with iceberg!

Amazing Read-a-Thon Results

Would the community reach the goal of 126,000 minutes of reading (2,100 hours)?

On Monday, January 30, Robb announced the results to the community:

“Congratulations on a fabulous Read-a-Thon! I hope you enjoyed working together to reach your first two incentives, the cupcake party 和 Read-a-Thon notebooks/pens with a special visit from our book-loving mascot, the 较低的学校 Blue Devil! 他很有趣!”

Robb recognized 和 congratulated  a few Poly readers for reading over 40 hours:

• 西尔维娅K. 在1 b
• 赞恩年代. 在2
• 现金牛. 和 约翰W. 在3 b
• Eren年代., 克里斯一个. 和 克莱尔T. 在4 b

Robb also thanked the faculty 和 staff who participated. “We had 24 faculty 和 staff log minutes for the Read-a-Thon,” she reported. “Mr. 卡尔,女士. 德雷尔和她的同事. Hunter were the top three faculty/staff readers, 和 all together the faculty 和 staff read for over 263 hours!”

At the conclusion of the Read-a-Thon, all participants also received a certificate 和 a bookmark. In honor of classes who had 100% participation in the Read-a-Thon, Robb said those classes “will get to choose between an extra choice time or a day with no homework.” As it turned out, every class in Grades 1-4 achieved 100% participation!

黏液时间

And finally…Robb announced, “Last but not least, to slime or not to slime? In order to see me, 和 Mr. 薛西斯和薛西斯博士. Yasharian get slimed, you needed to work together to read at least 2,100 hours. I’m mostly happy, 和 also a little bit terrified, to announce that you read for 2,107 hours. So, we will see you on Friday at the Read-a-Thon/黏液时间 assembly!! Excellent work, everyone, 和 KEEP READING!!”