Home Reading Ends this
Week!
Thank you
for your support of our Home Reading Program this year. We know that the work you do at home, reading
with your children, helps their confidence and abilities as readers to continue
to grow. As we near the end of the school year, we need time to collect and
inventory all of our Home Reading Books so that we have a full library of texts
ready to send home with our students next fall.
This week
(May 21-24) will be our final week sending Home Reading Books home with
students. You should see the final books of the year come home this Thursday
May 23rd. After that, we will
begin the process of collecting the books and making sure any lost/damaged
books are accounted for. Missing Book
Notices will continue to come home over the following few weeks.
As has been
the process throughout the school year, notices will be sent home for books
that were taken home by your child and not yet returned to school. We appreciated your support in continuing to
hunt for these books. If the books are
not recovered, the school will ask that you pay a $5 charge per book that is missing. This can be paid in cash, or applied to your
PowerSchool Account if it is $10 or more. The fees help us to replace missing
and damaged books so that next year’s students can continue to benefit from the
support of this program.
Although our
Home Reading books will no longer be coming home, students are still encouraged
to read with their families daily. There
are a variety of places that they can access books at their ‘just right’ reading
level including our school’s Learning Commons, Little Free Libraries, online
with RazzKids, and at the Calgary Public Library. If you would like recommendations about books
to access with your child, please reach out to their classroom teacher for
ideas.
If you have questions, comments, or concerns
about the Home Reading Program, please reach out to your child’s teacher, or
contact the Resource Teacher, Heather Mitschke at hmmitschke@cbe.ab.ca
Happy Reading!
