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| A Glimpse into A Racerunner Reading Moment |
The Racerunner Reading Challenge
The Racerunners have hopped right into their spring Reading Challenge. Following our Usborne Reading Challenge success, students and their families have asked for something similar in class. In Morning Meeting friends brainstormed ways to set personal reading goals, classroom reading goals and reading goal celebrations! Each afternoon friends record the minutes that they have read in class. Not only is this challenge increasing our awareness of reading, but it is also a natural avenue to use double (sometimes triple) digit addition! Our classroom is all a buzz as students put all of their minutes together, add to their log and anxiously await the next time we read as a group, with buddies or independently. This week you can spot Racerunners reading at recess, lunch or with their favorite classroom stuffee - Dante the Dinosaur.
You can support your child with helping them add their minutes read at home (or in the car, grocery store or waiting room), and initialing their log. Remember reading has many faces: fictional short stories, a grocery list, song lyrics, instructional manuals, graphic novels, the side of a cereal box, and classic novels. We are all readers no matter what we prefer!
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| Buddy Reading to Understand Mummies at the ICPL |
Personal and Classroom Goals
During Morning Meeting, we brainstormed what would be reasonable for a personal, daily reading goal. They set a range of 30 minutes to 100 minutes per day! We decided that some days we will read more, and some days we will read less. Regardless, we are excited that each minute will contribute to our classroom goal! As a class, friends decided that they would like to read a total of 1600 minutes per week.
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| Far, far away on a reading journey all his own. |
Celebrate Reading
After setting our personal and classroom reading goals, it was important to determine a celebration. We made a list: A Dance Party, A Day with Buckley, Extra Recess, Pajama Day, Reading with Stuffed Dogs or other Favorite Animals, Baking and Eating a Cake, an Ice Cream Party, and A Movie with a treat. After everyone had contributed an idea, we took a blind vote. As a result we decided that if we meet our goal for 5 weeks, we will watch a School House Rocks or Discovery Kids Movie with popcorn to celebrate our many, many minutes of reading.
Of course moments reading under Willowwind's tree, or basking in the warm sun on our classroom porch are unexpected gifts that only an Iowa spring can give.
I am so thankful for your children and all that they discover each day.
In our favorite saying of perseverance - just keep reading, reading, reading....
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