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Welcome to our Reading Promises Blog for families at Sinking Springs Elementary! Thank you for stopping by to read, learn, and share with us.

The purpose of this blog is to connect the readers of this blog and their reading promise experiences. The Reading Promise Project is based upon the reading streak author Alice Ozma chronicles in her real life memoir, The Reading Promise, between her and her father. What started as a seemingly lofty goal of 100 consecutive nights of reading together when Alice was in fourth grade, turned into a streak lasting until Alice's first day of college, 3,218 days. Our project aims to inspire as many others as possible to create reading promises of their own.

If you are a Sinking Springs parent or student, I hope that you will use this blog as a way to communicate with other families about your reading streak experiences. Tell us stories from your daily reading experiences, what books you've loved and what books you've passed up. Share your successes with us to celebrate and your challenges with us to collaborate on solutions. What little magical moments have arisen because of the commitment you've made to reading with your family? What books have you found that are must-reads for other families?

If you are a new visitor to our blog, I invite you to join our conversation and share your thoughts and experiences! From what I've learned by following Alice Ozma on various social media networks, our readers are not the first, nor the last to be inspired to begin reading streaks. I've seen other stories about amazing family reading moments and the readers at our school would love to hear about thoughts, experiences, suggestions, successes, and challenges from anyone else out there who is taking the same journey or just interesting in sharing his/her thoughts. Contribute to our conversation! Become a part of our online community of readers. We'd love to have you.

Join us in the effort to make reading a special part of your everyday life. Make a promise to read with your family, your classroom, your friends, your loved ones.

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Day 1 (They Just Don't Know It Yet!)

Today was the first day of our 2012-2013 school year at Central York School District. I welcomed 24 smiling faces into my classroom this morning. My heart sighed a little every time a student chose to share that they love to read as a fact about themselves during one of our getting to know you activities this morning.

Although the students may have no idea what they're in for yet, our reading streak began today. I decided not to introduce the idea to them quite yet. (I thought they needed at least a day to get used to my over eager enthusiasm in general first.)

I'm anxious to hear what the students have to say about the Reading Promise challenge once I do bring it up to them. I plan on working with them to create our "rules" and expectations together and to see what they're hopes and dreams are for the experience. After seeing all of the energy and excitement they showed already on the first day, I'm confident that they will be up for the experience! Any other classrooms begin a Reading Promise today?

I'll keep you posted!
Mrs. Hartman
Part of Our Classroom Library...Can't wait to see students' curled up here enjoying a great book!
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