Fire up with Reading!

We have been very busy here at Twin Ridge for the past few weeks. We've kicked off our new reading program, Fire Up with Reading! In an effort to increase school-wide independent reading, we've used Toni Buzzeo's incentive program. Students read and record their minutes on their log. Every Monday is "Scaley Monday," where students get to put one scale on their class dragon for every 30 minutes that they've read and parents have initialed. We've just had our first "Scaley Monday" and we can already tell that we're going to have to expand some of those dragons! Our students are superstars- some reading 1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours, or more in a single day! Staff members are participating too and our dragon is filling up quickly as well. In March, we will have a dragon parade to celebrate all of the reading and the top reader from each grade will get to be part of the dragon for the parade!

Ms. Allwardt and I had a great time introducing the program to students. Here's me in my Mrs. Skorupski outfit- fire engine tights and all! Okily dokily!