Family Reading Night

On Thursday evening, we celebrated the annual Illinois Family Reading Night at Harrison School.  Each year, we do something a little different.  This year, we used the theme "Reading Under the Stars" which related to our summer reading program that we had.  

For the first part of the evening, we had four readers who each read one picture book out loud to our students.

First, Mrs. Ruzika, a former Harrison kindergarten, teacher read A is for Musk Ox by Erin Cabatingan.  In this hilarious picture book, the musk ox is tired of being placed in the middle of the alphabet book so he lobbies to be used for almost every letter of the alphabet!  We might have learned a little about the musk ox animal too!!

Next, Mrs. Szara, one of our resource teachers, read The Princess and the Pig by Jonathan Emmett.  In The Princess and the Pig, there is a crazy mix-up of a baby princess and a piglet.  It's the sort of thing that happens in books all the time!

After that, our principal, Mrs. Huff, read My Lucky Day by Keiko Kasza.  Is it REALLY the wolf's lucky day?  

Finally, we were fortunate to have one of our school board members, Gregg Kuretski, read The Monster Who Ate My Peas by Danny Schnitzlein.  In this story, the boy doesn't want to eat his peas so he makes a deal with the monster who comes to eat them for him.  How much will he have to give up?

We all really enjoyed these funny stories!

After the stories, the family each created a poster depicting their favorite family book.  We have some really creative families at Harrison!  Here are a few pictures of our families working on the posters and their finished products:

Each child who came went home with a fun flashlight and a free new book to keep!  Thank you to all of the families who came and to all of the volunteers who made the night special!