Reading Challenge Ends

This week was our last week for our reading challenge.  I want to thank everyone for helping their child read each night, recording their times, and turning them in at the end the week.  If you still have your last reading log, please send it in on Monday.  The classroom teachers will be compiling their reading minutes to see which classes will participate in our reading celebration relay.  Just like last year the classes with the highest minute will have their teacher participating in a relay race in May.  At the end of the relay race the teams principal that loses will be ending up in a dunk tank.  It should be an exciting event to celebrate all of our hard work as readers!

Also, throughout this last month we have been reading as a school the book, Nicholas a Maine Tale by Peter Arenstam.  Everyone has been so very excited about this book!  It has given students a chance to make connections to their own life as the main character Nicholas travels around the state of Maine.  In celebration of finishing the book this week we were surprised with a special visitor,  Peter Arenstam!  It as so awesome to have him at our school to share about being an author, his books, and of course how he wrote our all time favorite Nicholas series.  We love the character so very much, that we as a class, along with several other classes are going to read the next book in the series, Nicholas a New Hampshire Tale.