Book It......Reading at Home

Today I am sending home the calendars for Book-It.  As many of you know, this is a reading incentive program sponsored by Pizza Hut to encourage students/kids to read at home.  The kick off/start month is October, which begins on Tuesday.  A goal is set and written on the calendar for the amount of time each student is to read or surpass, recording their minutes on the calendar or each day that he/she reads. At the end of the month, students return their calendar showing they have completed or passed the goal.  He/she is then given a coupon for a free personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut.

While I encourage every student to read at home, participation in Book-It is optional.  I would love to see all of my students in 3B participate as reading at home is very important!  But again, I am not going to require the students to participate and return the calendar for Book It if they decide not too.  We will start checking books out of our classroom library to go home starting next week so students will have books they could be reading at home not only from the classroom but library as well.

BUT........those students that do participate and return their calendar EVERY month for Book-It will enjoy a celebration with me in April as a reward for returning their calendars, participating, and meeting/surpassing their reading goals every month!!!!!  Last year the celebration involved dinner and a movie in the classroom during lunch.  Only those that participated could enjoy dinner and a movie with me.  So......why not participate, have fun reading, build those reading skills/strategies and have some fun along the way?

So...get reading!