Students ‘Read for the Record’
By DAILY CHRONICLE
On Oct. 8, the Sandwich High School Future Educators Association participated in the 2009 Read for the Record campaign.
Fifteen high school students read “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” by Eric Carle, to 162 students in the kindergarten classes at Haskin, Woodbury, Prairie View, and the IVVC AM and PM Early Childhood Education programs.
Read for the Record is a combined effort between Jumpstart and FEA to promote literacy awareness by reading the same book to as many children as possible on the same day. Last year, 688,000-plus students were read to. This year their goal is 1 million. Visit www.jstart.org/ for more information.
Since 1993, Jumpstart has been bringing at-risk preschool children and caring adults together in intensive, year-long relationships to build the vital literacy, social and emotional skills children need to thrive. Jumpstart delivers a research-based, best practice curriculum to nearly 15,000 preschoolers in 76 communities in 20 states across America. Jumpstart is working toward the day every child in America enters school prepared to succeed.
To support the Jumpstart program, the Sandwich club purchased a copy of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” for each of the schools.
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