Hip Hip Hooray, It’s A Great Day To Read!

Wednesday afternoon, our students went to the gymnasium for our regular Wednesday special. Mrs. Plow’s taught the students about growing a sunflower. Afterward the students were able to plant their own sunflower seeds.  The students were surprised with a special reward from the New York Road Runners Club and its Mighty Milers program following the seed planting.

The NYRR sent our school 100 books that our students worked very hard to earn during the month of March. (Please see previous post on our Mighty Milers achievements.) The students split into groups of three and went through the boxes to discover all different kinds of books.  All of our staff and students read some of the books, and we loved sharing the illustrations on each page. Below is a list of some of the titles that our Pathfinder School Library received.  I've also included some pictures of our students reading and others who received incentives for their miles walked/ran.

"Sugar Plum Ballerinas" by Whoopi Goldberg

 "Toy Story 3 Mix and Match" by Disney,Pixar

 "Spider-Man" adapted by Richard Thomas Jr. 

"My Funny Valentine: Phineas and Ferb" by Jon Colton Barry 

"Winnie The Pooh: Pooh’s Honey Trouble" by Disney 

"Jake And The Spyglass" by Malinda La Rose

"Rapunzel: A Day to Remember" by Helen Perelman

 "Toy Story 3: Meet The Gang" by Disney, Pixar

Everyone at Pathfinder School would like to thank NYRR and Mighty Miler’s for providing such a phenomenal program and opportunity for students to exercise their bodies and their brains!  We love our books and cannot wait to start reading them in our library and classrooms!

Keep our bodies healthy and our minds active!

 Spring is here and our students are welcoming the season with brand new books for our library! Mighty Milers is a program of the New York Road Runners(NYRR). The program encourages students to participate, go the distance, count their laps and earn free books for their school library. During March, each Pathfinder School student had a goal to walk one-half mile each week.  If the students reached their goal, then our school library receives free books for their efforts from NYRR. More information may be found at http://www.nyrr.org/youth-and-schools/mighty-milers

 Each day we would play a game that involved the students wearing a pedometer and counting the number of laps walked around our gymnasium.  These games included races, music mania; drawing new shapes for each lap completed, figure 8 laps, quick sort, and so much more!  Our School to Work students also counted the number of miles they walked.

This program is fantastic because Mighty Miler’s focuses specifically on cardiovascular endurance; which is important for every individual. All together our students walked 144.75 miles during March! They walked enough to earn 100 free books for our library and to be added to a NYRR drawing to possibly win 400 additional books.  All of the students are very proud and excited when visiting the library as our books arrive.

               

  At the end of March, each student received a participation certificate. Some students walked enough miles to earn a “Run for Life” card, a marathon medal, and a t-shirt. This has been a great experience for our students, and I would highly recommend it as a school or class project for other educators.