Reading is fun week ends on high note with big book parade

ROADTOWN Tortola BVI, October 18th, 2011 – The principal, teachers and students of the Ebenezer Thomas Primary school ended Reading is Fun Week on a high note by hosting their first ‘Big Book and Costume Parade’ at the school’s grounds on Friday, October 14.

Students from stage one to class five, with the aid and creativity of teachers, formulated original character books depicting stories they created together as a class. Their books were then read to an audience filled with their peers, adults, parents and well-wishers.

Stage one students wrote “Look at us Dive into Reading”; stage two students authored “The Four Little Pigs”; class one wrote, “Sky and Her Animals”; class two authored “One Special Day”; class three wrote “PorkChop loves Homophones”; class four authored “Scattered Roots”; and class five wrote ‘The Power in Isabela”.

Students also enacted stories from popular books such as Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Dr. Seuss. Additionally, the students created the character ‘Boysie’ from Boysie and the Genips a book written by local author Mrs. Jennie Wheatley, the Elmore Stoutt High School’s honoree for this year’s Reading is Fun Week.

Mrs. Sybil Hodge, principal of the Ebenezer Thomas Primary School said that the initiative was done as a means to promote and encourage reading among students.

“This was an incentive used to encourage the students to read more by promoting the fun and learning experience that can be derived from reading. The students used their creativity, worked together as a class and were excited to create the books and the characters. The boys were particularly involved in this exercise,” the principal stated.

Reading is Fun Week was observed in the Territory under the theme, “Reading: the Power of Education”. It was instituted by the Department of Education in the early 1990s, to heighten the awareness of the importance of reading and encourage Territory-wide participation during the week of activities.

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