Code Read is off and running! Today we met and worked on our first service project. We are collecting books for kids and working with a group from the Johnson County Christmas Bureau. Our club kids today worked on creating posters, flyers and decorating book collection boxes. The book drive will occur from Nov. 5-Nov. 16. We are fortunate to have classroom teachers who enthusiastically support our goals and have agreed to provide space for our book collection boxes.
After we've finished collecting books, we've also pledged to donate $75 from our club, in conjunction with $25 from a neighborhood group. Together we will spend $100 at the Scholastic Warehouse to buy new books for children, including books written in Spanish.
Here's what I love about our club (by the way, Code Read is prounounced using the past tense for read):
- we have a huge variety of wonderful students in our club
- they are eager to help others
- the jump right into a job we give them
- they love to eat while they work
- they come up with ideas for improving ways we can do projects
- different members have quickly and confidently taken on leadership roles
- different members have quickly and confidently taken on leadership roles
- they get along really well, even though some of them had never met before
One thing I should mention about Code Read. We aren't exclusive. If members tell us they don't like reading books, we don't bug them about it. We know they probably do reading in other formats (online, listening to books on CD, magazines, newspapers, 'zines, podcasting, graphic novels, manga, etc.) Our only requirement for membership is that our participants love libraries! So far, so good.
1 comments:
Well said.
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