FRI: Firth Reading Initiative

Donna Clayson helped launch the Firth Reading Initiative, held on Fridays to promote literacy.  Our support was quickly solicited for help and we quickly obliged.  

Charlotte Reid brought a lamb when she read from Little Britches.

I had fun coming up with themes and dreaming and scheming of what we could do.  I was able to get Papa Murphy's to donate personal pizzas for each participant.

After reading a few stories (Pete's A Pizza, the kids got to "make" their own paper plate pizza.

Their favorite part was putting it in our cardboard oven to "bake."

Another day we spotlighted Mo Willems and read some of his books, Piggy and Elephant and the Pigeon books.  We make pigeon headbands and drew the pigeon according to Mo's directions.

And you just can't talk children's literacy without mention of Dr. Seuss.  We pulled out our hat cats.

Dalanie dressed up like the cat and practiced reading a few stories to be ready to help.  So you can imagine her disappointment when not one single person came.

His books are just right for the beginner.

Attendance dropped off and we decided to wrap things up with the program for the year.