Help Head Start win $5,000 to put toward Star Light, Star Bright, A Family Reading Night and classroom libraries! Vote once a day, every day in April here: http://www.refresheverything.com/urbandayheadstart.
Goals
Overview
Head Start hosts a family night every month. Every year in October, students, families, and staff participate in "Star Light, Star Bright" - a family reading night. Each classroom transforms into a book, with the door as its cover and the students as the characters. For example, this year a classroom read If You Give a Moose a Muffin. Reading came alive as students traced their hands to make "antlers" and helped bake muffins.
Star Light, Star Bright helps Head Start children SOAR out of povery through reading. Students SOAR by...
Sounding-out words (listening to audiobooks, reading books outloud)
Opportunities for play (connecting activities with books)
All-family reading (dedicating reading time, creating emotional connections)
Repitition (reading same books to foster word recognition)
Your vote will help us give families reading materials to take home, as well as provide supplies so students can practice writing at home and school.
How will the 5K be Used?
$ 3,000 Literacy baskets
$ 1,000 Multicultural books for the library
$ 1,000 Supplies
Goals
- Distribute 300 literacy baskets; increase multicultural library books
- Narrow the achievement gap between African-American and white students
- Encourage all families to read together
- Foster a love of reading in students
- Promote reading at home, not just in school
Overview
Head Start hosts a family night every month. Every year in October, students, families, and staff participate in "Star Light, Star Bright" - a family reading night. Each classroom transforms into a book, with the door as its cover and the students as the characters. For example, this year a classroom read If You Give a Moose a Muffin. Reading came alive as students traced their hands to make "antlers" and helped bake muffins.
Star Light, Star Bright helps Head Start children SOAR out of povery through reading. Students SOAR by...
Sounding-out words (listening to audiobooks, reading books outloud)
Opportunities for play (connecting activities with books)
All-family reading (dedicating reading time, creating emotional connections)
Repitition (reading same books to foster word recognition)
Your vote will help us give families reading materials to take home, as well as provide supplies so students can practice writing at home and school.
How will the 5K be Used?
$ 3,000 Literacy baskets
$ 1,000 Multicultural books for the library
$ 1,000 Supplies
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