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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.

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Day 100!!!!!!!!

100 Days of Reading!!!!

Woo hoo!! Our class has reached one of our mini milestones for our reading streak! On Friday, we officially had been reading for 100 consecutive school days!

The students had planned a fabulous reading celebration to honor our achievement. Nothing is better than finding a comfortable place to enjoy a good book so our celebration centered around reading in comfort. Students decided pajamas are the best reading wardrobe, so it was officially a PJ Day in Room 205.

Along with our pajamas, our class decided to spend the afternoon constructing a reading fort out of our desks, chairs, blankets, and bed sheets, then crawling in to read inside. I LOVE a good fort. You are never too old to build a fort and enjoy a good book inside of it. We had pillows, stuffed animals, books and Kindles inside our cozy reading lair.

Here's our final construction:

 

Part of the time was spent listening to me read aloud from our newest class read aloud, The Worst-Case Scenario: Deadly Seas: An Ultimate Adventure Novel. For the rest of the time, silence filled the classroom as students dove into their own books of choice. What better way to celebrate 100 days of reading, than with more reading?








In the words of my students, "It was epic." How have you celebrated 100 days?

Happy Reading!
Mrs. Hartman

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  1. Momma HolmesFebruary 5, 2013 at 7:29 PM

    Congrats! That is awesome! Your class and you should celebrate! Is there anyone else in the school celebrating too?

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