World Read Aloud Day Blogging Challenge: Week One

World Read Aloud Day is March 5th.  Magee participated a couple of years ago and I hope we can do it again this year.  I read about the World Read Aloud Day (WRAD) Blogging Challenge from one of my favorite blogs to follow, Van Meter Library Voice.  Each week there is a blogging challenge related to reading aloud.  As a library media specialist and book lover, I accepted the challenge!

Here is week one's challenge: What is your earliest or fondest memory in which someone read aloud to you?

I have memories of my mom reading to me when I was younger. The memory that really sticks out to me is my older cousin, Sue reading to me and my sister when she was babysitting us. My sister and I had a large collection of the Berestain Bears books. I loved those books! Sue would start out by reading us one of those books and then my sister and I would bug her until she read us a couple more. Now those books were not very short, but Sue would not complain about reading them. I think she liked it as much as we did!

This year I hope to have Magee participate in WRAD. Two years ago we had all staff members (custodian, school secretary, gym, music and art teachers included) read to kids and do an art project based on ideas from the WRAD website. There are many activities and resources on that site. I plan to work with Magee's reading specialist to come up with a fun activity to celebrate reading aloud!