Haywood Elementary students enjoy fun activities during
Read Across America Week



Cindy Currie’s and her second-grade students chose to celebrate Read Across America Week by dressing up as the characters of one of their favorite books, “ 101 Dalmations.” The children dressed as “puppies” of the leading character, “Cruella De-Vil.”

Students in other classrooms had the opportunity to dress up as their favorite character in a book, and they chose a colorful variety of costumes. Special reading topics included stories about a princess, a monkey, a nurse, Spiderman and a famous basketball player.

During the week-long celebration at Haywood Elementary, students wore a readable T-shirt on Monday. Tuesday was Muffins for Moms Day and lots of mothers came to school for a muffin and to read to the kids. Wednesday was Donuts for Dad day so fathers could get in on the reading action,too. On Thursday, they celebrated Dr. Seuss’s birthday by eating green eggs and ham for breakfast, and Principal Jean Wills read the book, “Green Eggs and Ham” on the intercom. On Friday, Haywood Elementary teachers joined in the fun with the kids and dressed up as book characters, too.

All week long, students worked on building a class caterpillar. Every time a student read a book, a circle was added to the body of the caterpillar. When all the circles in the school were counted, students had read 5,140 books in five days. The first-grade class winner was Jeanna Lea’s class with 489 books. Stacie Lefave’s class was the second-grade winner with 200 books read. These two classes celebrated with ice cream at lunch on Monday, March 6.

Learning about dinosaurs



First graders at Haywood Elementary are enjoying their science lessons on dinosaurs. These panoramic displays that showed different types of dinosaurs and their environments were made by students in Bobbie Gavin’s class.