67,000 Minutes

The third graders have together read over 67,000 minutes. Stop right now, stand up, and dance! Come on, you know you want to!

More Mail!

The letters continue to pour in.



Thanks to these additional Read to Feed partners:

Kuerth's Disposal & Recycling Inc.
Hometown Creamery
Pompa Do's
The Hearthstone Restaurant
Craig Monette PLC
Famous Foods of Muskegon Inc.
The Coffee House, LLC
Shoreline Vision

Thanks for caring for our community and those in need around us.

Read to Feed BLITZ

Okay. This table is a bit bigger than your kitchen table. And it is overflowing with food! The Read to Feed Food Drive at Twin Lake Elementary has been running the month of March. Thanks to all of the amazing students, families, and staff who have raided their pantries and sent in dry good items. We are so thankful for your help. To finish strong, we launched a BLITZ today. It will run for the next three days. This is your last chance to open the cupboards and send things in. GO, GO, GO.

OUT OF THIS WORLD

Ahhh! Aric, Commander of the Interspace Brigade arrived in third grade this week. He traveled from the planet Ganoob in a cereal box called, "Alien Crisp." He is here to save our planet from the evil Drane, Dorf.

Last night, the third graders stayed after school to read in the libary for an entire hour. They were AWESOME. What great reading. They then traveled back to the classroom (by spaceship) to watch the sci fi movie, "Aliens For Breakfast." Earlier this month, they were able to hear the story read to them in class. It was fun to see the book brought to life on the TV screen.

Library and Movie Night was OUT OF THIS WORLD.

Isn't Getting Mail Fun?

A few weeks ago, the third graders used their persuasive writing skills to compose letters to a number of community businesses and friends, inviting them to join the Read to Feed Project. The letters were dropped off at the local post office, and the waiting began.

The students' hard work and patience is paying off. They are receiving letters at school left and right. Many of the responses are arriving with donations enclosed. VERY COOL. It is a ton of fun to watch the third graders open the mail and cheer as the contents are shared with the entire class. So far to date, we have received over $1,000 in donations. Is that cool or what? That is an additional $1,000 worth of groceries we will be able to purchase for the Rescue Mission. That's something to dance about. YAHOO!

We want to publicly thank our community partners who have donated and supported this project to date. They are:

SLJ Educated Financial Solutions
A. C. Stafford & Sons Inc.
C & I Electric
Cutting Corners
Great Lakes Physical Therapies - N. Muskegon, LLC
Ray's Mini Mart
Witt Buick
RC Productions
Women's Division Chamber of Commerce
Johnson Septic Service
Shelby State Bank
GOODWILL Industries
Perry & Peggy Johnson Family
Northside Heating, Cooling, & Refrigeration Inc.

Thank you a million times over for inspiring and modeling for our kids what it means to care for those around us, not just with words, but with actions.

Keep the mail coming!

30,000 MINUTES

Jump for JOY! The third graders have been reading like crazy. So crazy that they have just reached their goal of 30,000 minutes. Way to go kids. Your teachers are so proud of you.

Even though the goal of 30,000 minutes has been reached, the third graders continue to press on. After a visit from Mrs. Shade from Meijer Inc., the students learned that every 15 minutes they read earns them 45 cents to spend at the store for the Rescue Mission. Stay tuned for an updated total soon.

Iceberg Ahead!!!

Titanic Tuesday was a great success.

Listening to a non-fiction story...





Collecting and recording some cool facts...



Building barges and transporting copper...



Glad to report 100% survivors.

Kick Off

To kick off Read to Feed, we called all of the third graders down to the gym for a game we call, "Read to Feed Relay." The boys and girls were divided into 10 teams. Each team member had to put on a backpack, run to the other side of the gym, fill the backpack with books, and run it back to their team. The next team member had to run it down to the other side and unload the books. This went on until the entire team was finished. What a ton of fun! We challenged the third graders to bring that excitement, energy, and teamwork to our Read to Feed project. Here are some snapshots of the action.





And the winning team is...