Race into Reading

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Clymer Library is a fantastic place to visit and borrow books. They are generous supporters of our Reading Rally and donated tons of books for our students to enjoy.

PTO’s first ever READ-ATHON was a huge success! What fun we had reading and logging our minutes. The winners were: Jeffrey M. from Mrs. Eschbach’s 6th grade class, who logged 1, 149 minutes for first place; Aviana M. from Mrs. Fiorani’s 3rd grade class, who logged 994 minutes; and Harper V. from Mrs. Fitzsimmons 5th grade class, who logged 705 minutes.

Pictured above are Jeffrey M. and Aviana M. Harper V. was absent.

Daniel Jude Miller, author of The Monsters in Manhattan series and Everybody Wake Up came to visit. To welcome our beloved author, Mrs. Radgoski and Mrs. Price encouraged every student to construct their very own monster to greet Miller and pay homage to his Monsters in Manhattan book series. Miller was impressed with the TEC monster-filled library.

Miller’s visit did not disappoint. His engaging and hilarious presentation captivated students from kindergarten through 6th grade. He explained how he started his illustrating and writing career, funny stories that inspired his books and how to believe in yourself to “level up” in life. Students interested in the writing craft were able to join Miller for a lunch session to discuss ideas and share stories. We hope he comes back to visit soon.

Have you ever wondered which is better…the book or the movie? Well, each classroom took the Book vs. Movie Challenge. Our classrooms picked a fantastic book to read and then watched the movie adaptation of their book. We ended our week-long celebration with our 2nd annual Dress Like your Favorite Character Parade. It was incredible. Our classrooms were filled with Junie B. Jones, The Cat in the Hat, Harry Potter, The Hungry Caterpillar and many more beloved characters. See some of them on the next page. Several lucky students who demonstrate PRIDE every day were selected to join our West basketball players and cheerleaders in the gym to read together.

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Race into Reading

Continued from page 2 cheered and played basketball with our West Athletes.

The Race into Reading Week was a blast. We stopped, dropped and read

After reading their prized book, the TEC students all week because…we are never too busy to read.