
{"id":9398,"date":"2010-03-18T11:50:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T19:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=9398"},"modified":"2010-03-18T11:52:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T19:52:28","slug":"fpg-brings-reading-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/03\/18\/fpg-brings-reading-to-life\/","title":{"rendered":"FPG brings reading to life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY KATE GRIESMANN<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Students at Frank Porter Graham Elementary School took advantage of an extra hour of daylight Monday by attending the school\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Readathon night. The Readathon has been an annual event at FPG for 12 years, but this was the first time a family night was included in the two-week fundraiser. <\/p>\n<p>This year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Readathon theme was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Reading Adventures in Your Backyard,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and, fittingly, the school media center became an outdoor adventure-land filled with tents, canoes, kayaks and even an indoor campfire. The sound of crickets filled the air and the walls were decorated with scenes of mountains.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What better way to infuse the library than to transform it?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said school librarian Kathryn Cole. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Kids who do not like to read are begging to come down so they can read in the tents and canoes.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>Certainly the media center was a popular place Monday night. In every corner, students paired up with parents or friends to read books by flashlight or lantern. Second-grader Leah Hurwitz climbed into the stern of a canoe while her mother took the bow. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I like to read over there,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Leah said, pointing toward a cluster of tents and canoes on the far side of the media center. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But I usually don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get to because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m slow at picking books.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>Family night also included storytelling by local children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s authors Amy Odom and Rosemarie Gulla, show-and-tell with rehabilitated wild animals by the Piedmont Wildlife Center and a bake sale. Parents were offered ideas on how to support reading at home through BookFlix, an online reading program available to FPG students. The Chapel Hill Public Library also was on hand to sign families up for library cards. <\/p>\n<p>Second-grader Rachel Grau attended family night with her mother and sister. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153So far I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve read about four hours,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said of Readathon. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My favorite part of tonight was getting to see the animals in the science area.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Readathon is consistently the school\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most successful fundraiser, raising approximately $10,000 last year. The funds were used to support a variety of school programs including upgrades to the science lab and media center and money for fieldtrips and purchasing classroom supplies. To participate, students set individual goals of the number of minutes they plan to read and ask parents, friends and neighbors to support them with monetary donations. <\/p>\n<p>The student body as a whole is trying to read a grand total of 500,000 minutes. If the students reach the half-million mark, Cole and the school\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s science teacher, Liz Stabenow, have agreed to participate in the FPG Challenge: Cole will hold a snake and Stabenow will touch a tarantula while hundreds of excited \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and well-read \u00e2\u20ac\u201c students look on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students at Frank Porter Graham Elementary School took advantage of an extra hour of daylight Monday by attending the school\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Readathon night. 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