Monday, December 19, 2005
Make a Difference in the Lives of Children In Need...
Here's a great project that you can do to help out children in need while helping out the children in your child care...
Scholastic Book Clubs has introduced ClassroomsCare. ClassroomsCare is a classroom reading program designed to teach children about the joys of reading and giving. For each class that reads 100 books by February 17, 2006, Scholastic Book Clubs will donate 100 new books to its charity partners. This year's charity partners included First Book, Reach Out and Read, and Save the Children. Each of these organizations gives the books to children in extremely under-resourced schools and communities in the United States, including many who have been affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Simple as that... read 100 books by February 17th (if you start today, it's only a bit over 2 books per day, Monday through Friday) and Scholastic will donate 100 books to children in need. The website gives you information that you can share with the parents as well as bookmarks and certificates for the children and families that you can print out. In addition, your child care will be listed on the Scholastic website in their ClassroomsCare Readers' Hall of Fame.
It's a great idea! Read books in your child care. Enlist your families and have them read to their children as well. The families will benefit by the shared time, the children will benefit by reading, kids in need get free books, and you will get the satisfaction of helping out. It's a win-win situation for everyone.
I know that I have talked about them before, but Scholastic Book Club can be a great benefit for your families and a way for you to obtain low cost books for yor business.
Here's a great project that you can do to help out children in need while helping out the children in your child care...
Scholastic Book Clubs has introduced ClassroomsCare. ClassroomsCare is a classroom reading program designed to teach children about the joys of reading and giving. For each class that reads 100 books by February 17, 2006, Scholastic Book Clubs will donate 100 new books to its charity partners. This year's charity partners included First Book, Reach Out and Read, and Save the Children. Each of these organizations gives the books to children in extremely under-resourced schools and communities in the United States, including many who have been affected by Hurricane Katrina.
Simple as that... read 100 books by February 17th (if you start today, it's only a bit over 2 books per day, Monday through Friday) and Scholastic will donate 100 books to children in need. The website gives you information that you can share with the parents as well as bookmarks and certificates for the children and families that you can print out. In addition, your child care will be listed on the Scholastic website in their ClassroomsCare Readers' Hall of Fame.
It's a great idea! Read books in your child care. Enlist your families and have them read to their children as well. The families will benefit by the shared time, the children will benefit by reading, kids in need get free books, and you will get the satisfaction of helping out. It's a win-win situation for everyone.
I know that I have talked about them before, but Scholastic Book Club can be a great benefit for your families and a way for you to obtain low cost books for yor business.
// posted by Tammy Wachter @ 5:08 PM 
