Smilie Shares, Cares and Reads

Hi folks,

I wanted to update you on our school-wide

 initiative we are calling, Smilie Cares, Shares

 and Reads. The teachers and students have 

been having fun decorating shoes, hearing 

stories about how important shoes are and

reading lots of books. Every time a student 

reads a book, the title is written down on a

 "footprint ticket" and placed on our bulletin 

board. We are making a path of these tickets 

from Vermont to Kenya. Today, one of our fourth

 graders calculated that it is 7,241 from Vermont 

to Kenya, Africa. Our fourth graders are donating 

pairs of shoes to a poor area in this country. She 

then figured out that each of our "footprint tickets" 

was worth 20 miles. We need 362 tickets to make

it to Kenya. We currently have about 164 tickets, 

so we are almost halfway there and we have 2 more

 weeks of reading!! Of course, we need to come back

 from Africa, so we need 724 miles for our round trip.
Today at our assembly, we watched a video about 

"paying it forward". We saw how one kind act toward 

another person can fill our hearts with love and make 

us want to do something nice for another person!
Thanks for helping your children keep up with the 

reading each night!

The students were very happy to choose a brand new book that they could keep forever!  We are calling them our “forever books”.  On Monday, students starting picking out books to read at home.  Some students are choosing books they can read on their own and others are choosing books that they want to have their parents read to them or with them.  When the students finishes the book, they should return it to school and choose another book to read.  

 

Most students are still working on decorating their shoes so we are unable to wear our shoes to assemblies yet.  The students have taken the time to plan out what their shoes will look like and are carefully decorating them.

We are feeling really proud of ourselves for all the reading we are doing and for donating the shoes!  We can’t wait to wear our own shoes all together at our final assembly!