Hi families,

This post relates to my 5th grade TAG Reading class.

WOW! As I mentioned in my previous post, I was challenging the class to read quite a few pages over winter break. Students set quite lofty goals for themselves….and they exceeded them. Almost every single student read not only to the goal they had set, but way beyond it. The class had set out to read 3,295 pages over our two-week holiday, which came out to about 250 pages on average per student. When all their pages were totaled, they had read an amazing 5,775 pages!  I was blown away that some students read nearly 800 pages in two weeks! Thank you so much for supporting them by giving them awesome books and lots of time to read. It is experiences like that – lots of extended reading time with engaging books they can devour – that are helping your children continue to grow into amazingly thoughtful and voracious readers for life.

We will celebrate next week with an extended recess period which we will share with the 4th grade TAG Reading class, who also joined in our challenge (but our page total was ONLY made up of 5th graders’ reading!).

Thank you!