Wow! Thanks to our amazing new friend, author Kathi Appelt, for making our first annual Family Reading Festival a huge success!
We had an amazing night celebrating our JRE families and the love of reading. Miss Appelt gave a fascinating presentation about how she came to write The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp and what that entailed. After encouraging us to embrace the writer inside us all, we headed to the library. While Ms. Appelt personalized copies of her book, we had some super fun activities that included a photo booth:
Guess the Animal From Its Tracks:
Story Walk with the book The Kissing Hand:
And a new game we call Book Twister!
Our own Mr. Gomez was even sworn in by Ms. Appelt as an Official Sugar Man Swamp Scout Information Officer:
Thank you to all the JRE families who came out to help us celebrate! We so appreciate that you share our love and value of reading. Also many thanks to our wonderful volunteers and teachers who helped with this event. We couldn’t have done it without you!!