While many Bucyrus Elementary students spent their summer playing various sports and enjoying the freedom of not being in school, a group invested time in themselves by participating in the Bucyrus Elementary School Summer Reading Program.
The Elementary School Library staff developed an incentive-based summer reading program to encourage students to read 20 minutes each day. The program ran June 1 through August 21, and students logged their reading minutes on a bingo card.
“We chose the bingo theme, ‘Summer Reading Bingo’, to keep the program fun by challenging students to read in different places, to different people and many other challenges to show them that reading can be a fun adventure,” said librarian Diane Kaple. “Twenty-one students filled an entire bingo card two of the three months during the summer and earned a free book at our upcoming Book Fair.”
Once all the reading minutes were tallied, 36 students in preschool through fifth grade attended a Bowling Reward Party at Suburban Lanes. Students enjoyed several games of bowling and lunch thanks to funding from the Bucyrus Elementary School Parent-Teacher Organization (PTO).
“Mrs. Kaple and Mrs. (Kim) Binnix do a wonderful job developing programs to encourage our students to read,” said Elementary School Principal Timothy Souder. “I’m very proud of all our Redmen Readers, and hope that students and their families will participate in our yearlong initiative to help all our students develop a lifelong love of reading.”
Please contact librarians Diane Kaple or Kim Binnix at 419-562-6089 for more information about all the Elementary School reading activities.
