Summer Reading Program and Challenge Results

It has been quite an exciting summer!

The balloons on the wall on the second floor landing, marking the children’s reading progress, are very colorful. I feel good every time I walk past them just knowing how many books are being read.

A total of 79 children were registered for the Summer Reading Program. Sixty-seven children participated in the Summer Reading Challenge. Thirty-eight children met or exceeded the Summer Reading Challenge goal of 540 minutes of reading over an eight week period.

Altogether, they were required to read for 342 hours…our total exceeded that by 57 hours! What an accomplishment!

 

Here are the remaining story titles we read and the new song we learned.

We All Went on Safari by Laurie Krebs

Way Far Away on a Wild Safari by Jan Peck

Grandma Elephant’s in Charge by Martin Jenkins

Where’s My Mom? by Julia Donaldson

Giraffe’s Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae

The Bird, the Monkey, and the Snake in the Jungle by Kate Banks

Peace Week in Miss Fox’s Class by Eileen Spinelli

Peace Tales by Margaret Read MacDonald

Franklin is Bossy by Paulette Bourgeois

And to Think That We Thought We’d Never Be Friends by Mary Ann Hoberman

The Signmaker’s Assistant by Tedd Arnold

 

The Itsy Bitsy Monkey

The itsy bitsy monkey climbed up the coconut tree.

Down came a coconut and hit him on his knee. OUCH!

Out came a lion, shaking his great mane ROAR!

  And the itsy bitsy monkey climbed up the tree again!