BUCYRUS – The Bucyrus Elementary School Right to Read Week is following the theme of camping.
Associated activities are designed to get students and their families “Fired Up About Reading” this week.
Each classroom will decorate their door relative to the outdoors, camping and reading.
“Each year, we give the students and staff the opportunity to showcase their creativity throughout the building,” librarian Diane Kaple said. “The creativity of our students, their parents and our staff never cease to amaze me. It makes for an awesome week!”
The BES Library will host its annual Family Literacy Night from 5:30 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, March 8. The literacy event will also feature two presentations from renowned children’s author Chris Rumble.
“Every year we’ve hosted the Family Literacy Night, our students and their families have a great time,” Kaple said. “Our hope is that people will be attend and enjoy a variety of educational activities with their children.”
The weeklong Right to Read activities will conclude with the annual Redmen Readers event. Bucyrus High School students will spend their afternoon reading books to every class at the Elementary School.
“The students love when the ‘big kids’ come to read to them,” Kaple said. “Our students see many of the high school students competing in athletics and other events and look up to them. It is certainly one of the highlights of the week for all our students and our staff.”
Right to Read Week also serves as the kickoff for the annual Reading Challenge. If students achieve the goal of reading more than 700,000, Elementary School Principal Mr. Timothy Souder, Associate Principal Mike Wallace and Curriculum Director Matthew Henderson will reward students by traversing through a camping-theme obstacle course.
“We set the goal for this year’s Reading Challenge at 700,000 minutes,” Kaple said. “The goal is for each student to read 20 minutes three times a day at home, as well as 20 minutes each day at school, for a total of 1,280 individual reading minutes per student; making this a very achievable goal.”
