Dear Parents,
This week we began our House Reading Competition! Your student needs to read 20 minutes (or more) each night and get your signature on their reading log. The House with the highest percentage of complete reading logs will receive the most house points!!!
In a world filled with extra-curricular activities it often feels impossible to take a moment for ourselves. Most of us feel like we have only two gears: 99mph and watching TV. Carving out the time in our schedules to read is a concept that intangibly exists between these two extremes. However, the development of leisure--activity for our self-betterment rather than productivity--is essential to the flourishing of our lives. Reading brings us into contact with the minds of others, it deepens our understanding of how the world used to be, and it informs how we ought to live in our own times. No matter the quantity, it is important that your student is in the habit of reading each day.
The purpose of the Reading Log is not to add another
“great-hearted” activity to your student’s teetering tower of to-do’s after
school. Its purpose is to form a lifelong habit of reading in all of
us. We encourage YOU to model lifelong learning with your student.
[Please contact your homeroom teacher if you are looking for reading suggestions for either your student or yourself!]
Art Credit: Mary Cassatt, "Family Reading"
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