Keep Logging Those Reading Minutes

“Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.”  —Tomie dePaola, author and illustrator of  the much-loved “Strega Nona”

Discovery’s Million Minutes Reading Challenge is underway, and we hope you’re encouraging your children to read outside of school or sharing stories with your non-readers. 

If each student reads 10 minutes a day outside of school over the next seven months, it will total more than 1 million minutes. Students in pre-K through second grade may count minutes that they read orally or that someone else reads to them, while students in third through fifth grade must only county minutes that they read on their own.

Below is the PTA’s September/October reading calendar, in case you need a new copy. Every student who reads 300 minutes (or more) during this time period will receive a coupon for a free kid’s meal and a slice of pie from Marie Callender’s. And the top reader from the primary grades and the top reader from the intermediate grades will get to select a free book. Please sign, and have your child return the calendar to his/her teacher by Oct. 30.

And if you need some new reading material in your home, the Discovery Book Fair is coming up Oct. 20-23. Parents are welcome to stop by anytime or on the late night, Oct. 22. More information will be sent home soon about the fall book fair!