Volunteers read to Lakeview students
Cheryl Lampe Pierce tells the story of Green Eggs and Ham to second graders at Lakeview Terrace Elementary. Lampe was one of a dozen volunteers to participate in the Read Across America program at the school.
Students in Megan Cox's second grade at Lakeview Terrace Elementary School
heard about Sam-I-Am, his green eggs and ham, and his solution from community volunteer Cheryl Lampe Pierce on Friday afternoon as part of the school's celebration of Read Across America.
Read Across America invites community members into classrooms to read to the students, showing kids that while reading is a skill they have to know, it's one of those skills that's fun too. The program usually is scheduled during the week of March 2, the birthday of Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss.
In addition, the Lakeview PTA buys a book for every child in school, Cox
said, which they are allowed to keep and take home. Pierce told the story of green eggs and ham to the second graders. She was one of 12 community volunteers who read stories to Lakeview students, Cox said.
The Big Bend Community College baseball team turned out in force to show
third graders that reading is more than a chore or a bore, with a good book it's fun and so much more. Coaches Pete Doumit and Mike Price also read to students, and the baseball team spent a little time with the kids at recess.
Other readers included former school librarian Stephanie Martin, district superintendent Michelle Price, Tyson Voss, who works for Grant County; Beau Montgomery from the Moses Lake Police Department and two Moses Lake firefighters who couldn't stay to read because they had to answer a fire call.
This is the fourth or fifth year Lakeview has participated in the Read Across America program, Cox said.