Dear Parents,
March 5, 2009
Each year the PTSA
sponsors a three week reading program called PARP (Parents As Reading
Partners). This year the
program will run from
March 6, 2009
through
March 27, 2009
. The theme is “Down At The
Farm”. The program will be
followed by an assembly with Daisy the Reading Pig on
April 3, 2009
. Students in grades K – 4
will bring home a shape with the days of the week on it.
We suggest you read with your child 5 out of 7 days for at least 15
minutes. Record the minutes per
day you read together and initial on the shape.
Each Friday in March (March 13, March 20 and March 27) the students
should bring the shape into school. The
teacher will collect the shapes and the PTSA will tally the minutes.
The minutes will be tallied by classroom and reported on a silo to be
hung up on the entrance wall in the Elementary School for all to see.
Students will receive a small prize for their hard work throughout the
week.
This year we are extending the program
to include pre-school aged and younger children to make this event
community-wide. There will be sign
up sheets located at the Greenwood Lake Public Library each week.
Parents should record their younger children’s reading minutes on
these sheets by Friday each week. These
sheets will be collected from the Library and added to a silo labeled
“Community.”
If the children at the
Elementary School read at least 40,000 minutes (about 8.8 minutes per day for
15 days) by the end of the three weeks, Mrs. Shea, the Elementary School
Principal, will kiss Daisy the reading pig. The class that reads the most
minutes will win a visit by Daisy and watch their teacher kiss the pig.
Additionally, if the “Community” (including the Elementary School children
and the younger children) reach a goal of 50,000 minutes, Mayor Barbara Moore
has agreed to kiss Daisy.
Thank you,
Colleen
M. Hallinan
PARP Committee Chairperson
