‘Be a hero,’ reading week starts at St. Rose

Posted 8/17/15

The Cardi Brothers, Nick, Ron and Pete, visited St. Rose of Lima School Monday morning for the school’s annual Reading Week. They took an hour out of their day to read to the preschoolers as well …

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‘Be a hero,’ reading week starts at St. Rose

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The Cardi Brothers, Nick, Ron and Pete, visited St. Rose of Lima School Monday morning for the school’s annual Reading Week. They took an hour out of their day to read to the preschoolers as well as first and second graders. The first book they read told the story how the nickname NiRoPE, came to be. Their great aunt Grace suggested the name for the row boat they had as kids and it came, “to represent” the brothers and their bond.

Sarah Powers, the reading resource teacher at St. Rose, who is in charge of reading week, said that this year’s theme is to “Be a Hero”.

“The Cardi Brothers do so much for our school and are such charitable figures in the community, we thought they really fit well with our theme and would be a good way to kick off the week,” Powers said.

Although the national reading week isn’t until April, St. Rose is having their own to go along with their Scholastic Book Fair this week.

Similarly, it connects in with the school’s new Accelerated Reading Program, software from Renaissance Learning, which allows students to work independently read while giving teachers a way to check in and monitor their progress.

Throughout the week community volunteers will visit the school to read to the students. Readers include college athletes and a few players from the Paw Sox baseball team. Other “mystery readers’ will be visiting the classrooms throughout the week as well.

There will be an ice cream social on Thursday and on Friday the students will get the chance to read their original works to the principal.

Powers said, “Reading and Writing are so interconnected that we wanted to give students a chance to display their own original work.”

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