Article published Apr 10, 2011
WMS Students Turn Media Center Into Poetry Jam
To celebrate our Family Night, our staff teamed up to host a fun Literacy Night Event.
Although we would have liked to see more families participate, those who did visit were treated to a beatnik-style Poetry Jam. Our own student volunteers served coffee, soda and cookies in a cafe'setting. Student poets performed poetry they wrote and a poem from their favorite author. Some Jazz Band members kept the beat with keyboards, drums and a saxophone.
Dig?
Other stations included vocabulary instruction strategies, text summarizing, read-and-say-something, booktalks featuring books from our fair and EOG highlighting strategies. These all help our students and parents read to learn and learn to read together. We had some great parental compliments!
Overall, the book fair was a success, in spite of the gloomy economy. Students had a great time visiting and helping out with our Student Crew over the last two weeks. Although we missed our goal by only $24.00, we were able to get almost $1200.00 in books for the library and classrooms!! We also had some leftover cash that the PTA will hold for fun activities coming up...
Until next year, happy reading and enjoy all our new books in our
media center.
