Special Events
 
 
Upcoming Special Events
 
5/15:  Human Growth and Development Presentations, Mock Middle School
 
5/21:  Wellings homeroom field trip Southcross Bayou (no charge)
 
5/22:  Moore homeroom field trip Southcross Bayou (no charge)
 
5/23 and 5/27:  Educational Plan Meetings at school, Invitations mailed to homes
 
5/30:  YMCA Picnic
 
6/2:  End-of-the-year breakfast, slideshow, and classroom awards ceremony (starts at 8:35AM)
 
6/3:  Last day of school, Fifth grade parade, breakfast, and award ceremony
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Book-A-Bration
On Friday, 5/16/08, we hosted an exciting community service project designed to promote literacy and bridge the achievement gap in the gymnasium of the Ridgecrest YMCA.  Our project, Book-a-Bration, is a grant funded, free book fair that will gave approximately 300 children from our school community who report owning few or no “just right books” a chance to self-select 5-10 new and gently used books for their home libraries.  Guests “shopped” for new summer reading books, played reading games, and enjoyed a few treats. Our project was designed to prevent the “summer reading slide.”  Research clearly supports the value of our project.  According to Richard Allington from the University of Florida, “By the time a struggling reader reaches middle school, summer reading loss has accumulated to a two–year lag in reading achievement. A 2007 study reveals that the achievement gap between high–socioeconomic and low–socioeconomic students at 9th grade traces back to the loss in reading proficiency that occurs over the summer months throughout the elementary grades.” However, Allington also found that children who read as few as six books over their summer vacations maintained their reading levels.  And children who read 10-20 books actually made reading gains. http://destiny.pinellas.k12.fl.us/common/welcome.jsp?site=157shapeimage_3_link_0