Literacy Walk a Success!
The Benold Literacy was the Friday before spring break. We had a gorgeous day. I appreciated all of the students that walked or ran laps. My observaton is that there were fewer students who chose just to sit and many who were on the track.
All those who cheered also helped me to stay focused on my own lap goal. I hoped to at last tie my 48 laps from last year. However, with so many onlookers I finished two more for a total of 5o–12.5 miles. I have to say thought that even with cold shower and pain relief medication, I hurt for two more days. My daily 3-4 miles just is not enough training for a one day half marathon!
Thanks to the concesion stand and those who collected pledges, we slightly exceeded our total from last year. The funds will provide many new books for the library. I know that sometimes the 8th graders who are moving up feel like they will not benefit from the Walk but thanks to an extremely active inter-library loan system within the district we can share our new title with those who helped to buy them. All you have to do is ask!
Does anyone have a title request? How about a series that you would like to see completed? Is there a genre (such as mysteries, romance, sports, biographies) that you would like to see more books? Be as specific as you can be. Schools do have selection policies but I am always ready to evaluate your recommendations.
I liked the literacy walk because we got to go outside and run inestead of stay inside and write notes all day! I walked alot and totaled at about 13 laps and i was ready to do more. I made a big pledge to the library so we can get newer and better books than what we alreay have! It was very fun for me! That is what I have to say about the literacy walk.
I had a really fun time also…. I just walked around with my friends and talked and raised money. It was alot better that staying inside all day and doing boring stuff like notes and homework.
I also liked that they had a conssesion stand out there to buy cokes and candy. Too bad that I wont be here next year to do it again….
On the new books topic I would like some more books about cars…. especially Fords and Mustangs.
The literacy was realy fun especially when your a library aide! You get 3 periods out of school!:) I ran 8 laps, and talked a little bit with some of my friends.
But for book suggestions, I would like to see some more “Dummies” books in different subject areas, other than animals. I personally want to see Dummies book for HTML, and Java. You could also include Dummies that teach crafts, history, and other subjects. Please consider my suggestions!:)