Our Love of Reading Week here at Sam Case has been packed with guests and events! Thank you to our community members for coming to share their love of reading with our students! Our classes have met County Commissioners Kaety Jacobson and Claire Hall; City Council Member CM Hall; NMS Principal, Aaron Belloni; NHS Vice Principal, Adam Scarberry; School Resource Officer Lekas; Newport Mayor, Dean Sawyer; Superintendant, Dr. Karen Gray; Megan Schain of Cohen and Park; Pastor Kelsey Ingalls; Chief of Police Jason Malloy; as well as Newport Public Librarians Linda Annabelle and Vanessa Clausing! Each visitor shared books and their love of reading with the students. We also enjoyed a Drop Everything and Read School-Wide Event, a wonderful assembly from the Newport Public Library, and fun events in the library all week long! Dress up days made the week even more fun with a great connections to all kinds of books. Kids dressed up as book characters from a popular children’s series on You’re a Wizard Harry Potter Day, people they admired on We’re all Wonders Day, in their favorite outfit for Oh The Places You’ll Go Day, and of course in their pajamas for Llama Llama Red Pajama Day. Tomorrow is our last day and we encourage all our students to dress up as their favorite book character and join us for one more day to celebrate Sam Case’s Love of Reading! We will also have special guests to read to more students. Thank you to Newport Public Library for sharing your amazing decorations and to everyone in our community for supporting our school celebration all week long!
School Resource Officer Lekas reading to students in the library.
County Commissioner, Claire Hall, reading to students in the library.
Students listening to a classmate reading to them.
Megan Schain from the photography studio, Cohen and Park reading to students.
NMS Principal, Mr. Belloni, came to meet 5th graders and share some of his favorite books. While he was here he was sorted into Gryffindor along with the class. The kids enjoyed meeting their Principal for next year and connecting with him through a love of reading.
City Council Member, CM Hall, reading to students in the library.
Sam Case Principal, Mrs. Moore, reading to a class in the library.
Community Member and substitute teacher, Pastor Kelsey Ingalls, reading to students from one of her favorite picture books, The Library Lion.
Sam Case Vice Principal, Sandy Battles sharing her love of Reading in the library.
During our Drop Everything and Read Event on Monday the students filled the hallways and spent 20 minutes reading together. It was a wonderful way to start our week!
A group of Harry Potter fans dressed up as their favorite characters from the books on Wednesday.
County Commissioner, Kaety Jacobson, read to students in the library this week.
Students enjoyed an assembly which highlighted fun events at our local library as well as book talks from Vanessa Clausing from the Newport Public Library.
Mrs. Cottrell and Ms. Jen had a fun time celebrating their love of reading with their favorite librarian, Vanessa, from the Newport Public Library.
Library Linda from the Newport Public Library joined in the fun as well. She shared about upcoming events, award winning books, and more.
All week long students have been decorating their doors with fun themes to celebrate their love of reading!