Fun With Reading

March 25, 2011
We are getting ready for the Book Fair at school, our big family fun night at the book fair is next Friday.  This year's theme is Book Fair Carnival.  One way we are working up to the big event is by trying to have the whole school read for a certain amount of minutes.  Our goal is 100,000 minutes!  I made a little "scale" that looks like one of those games at the fair that you hit the bottom with a mallet and see how high the disk will reach (I don't know what those are called).

Every Friday we get an update on the reading minutes, and one student comes up and hits the bottom part to see how close we are to reaching our goal.  Today Carlos, a 4th grade student got the privilege of hitting the target, and showed off his big muscles before doing his job! 
Sadly, we only have one week left, and after today we are only almost half way there...Oops!!