2011-2012 Reading Challenge

The Rhea Elementary School Learning Community places a high priority on reading. We have been documenting the books and reading material that our students, parents, faculty and staff have read since 2002. Here are the numbers: 2

2002-03: 122,697

2003-04: 235,361

2004-05: 310,886

2005-06: 425,438

2006-07: 431,790

2007-08: 404,428

2008-2009: 428,927

2009-2010: 469,919

2010-2011: 523,311

GRAND TOTAL: 3,352,757

We are continuing our reading journey this year! There is a link for a log for you to use at home at the bottom of this page. Enter on this log how many books your child reads, how many you read to your child, and how many books you read for yourself. We all read books as adults and I want us to count these as well. Children need to see their parents model reading and most of us read books and magazines anyway. You can count magazines and newspapers as well as books. I hope you will be pleasantly surprised at how many books you read as a family each month. Please send in the number of books on the first day of each month that you have logged.

We plan to celebrate our reading success in April. Thanks for allowing us to share the responsibility of creating challenging experiences for your child.

Sincerely, 

Scott Owens

Principal

Click here for an update page to see our progress!

Click HERE for a new chart on which you may log your books.