Read Across America
By Betty Meyer
March 10, 2010
Betty Meyer, Thayer Central Media Specialist, and media aides Linda Heitmann and Rhonda Starbuck invited the students of the Thayer Central National Honor Society to be guest readers for the elementary classrooms to celebrate READ ACROSS AMERICA DAY on Wednesday, March 3nd.
The guest readers read a selection of stories to the RISING STARS pre-school and RISING STARS-Lollipop Lane pre-school. They also read to Thayer Central kindergarten, first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth grade students and handed out Read Across America stickers, and book marks. They told the students about themselves and why reading was important in their lives. The students presented the guest readers with certificates thanking them for reading, and the guest readers will receive pictures of themselves reading to the students.
Started in 1998, Read Across America, which the National Education Association sponsors, has become a national tradition over the past five years as a way to promote reading while celebrating Dr. Seuss's birthday on March 2.
Guest readers at Thayer Central Community Schools included: Melissa Bulin, Nick Burkhardt, Nathan Elting, Derek Gandara, Will Goldhammer, Sheila Heitmann, Kelsey Loontjer, Chari Mikkelsen, Seth Wiedel and Courtney Yoachim .
