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April 21st 8:30-9:30
April 22nd 10:30-11:30ELA
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Reading Competition
We have been challenged to a reading contest by Mrs. Chidester’s fourth grade class. They are confident that they can read more in the month of December than we can! I know that they have no idea what awesome readers our class has.
Here are the reading rules
Students must track the minutes they read every night. Log minutes online or on the log form on the blog under homework/reading.
Students must track the number of pages read each night as well.
Students must read a book that is at or above their grade level. I will trust parents to be the best judge of your child’s reading ability. However if you would like to look up the level you can go here.
The contest begins Monday (December 3), and ends on Thursday, December 20th. Our goal is for each student to read at least 20 minutes a night. However, students who read more will be rewarded with prizes!!!! Technically the contest doesn’t start until Monday becasue we don’t give homework on weekends……however, ALL minutes in December will count!
PS The administration has agreed to a special “reward” in the case that each class exceeds 15,000 minutes.
So should we log in minutes from this last weekend?? And I just barely saw this post about grade level and one of the books Kase read was way below because he was reading to his little brothers. Should we not count that in the future? Also, I went up to check on him tonight around maybe 10:30-11pm and he was STILL UP READING! (That isn’t totally out of character for him but you might want to tell the kids they need their sleep too, lol.)
I DO NOT assign weekend homework. However, all minutes read and logged during December, even the weekend ones, will be counted towards are total. I will remind the students today the importance of sleep today. 🙂
Almost forgot your other question. I love that Kason is reading aloud to his little brothers. That is a great way to increase fluency. I’m going to let you be the judge if he counts it or not. If it is super simple like three words per page. Probably not. If it is complete some what complex sentences on each page than yes.
Ok! Thank you!!