2008-2009 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
GRAND TOTAL: 1,930,600
We are continuing our reading journey this
year as we know we are going to surpass two million books in 7 years!
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
May. 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!