Winter readers score at PBE

This was probably the best turnout ever for Lisa Ruyack’s winter break reading challenge. The Pine Bush Elementary School library media specialist has been encouraging kids to read and helping them to love reading for many years. So this year’s reading challenge over the winter break was similar to previous years’ challenges except for one thing – the turnout. Ms. Ruyack was thrilled to have 187 students complete the challenge!

Nine second-grade students sit on a floor, each holding a book. In the back is a teacher with shin-length brown hair smiling with them. — Lisa Ruyack sits with nine of her second-grade students who completed the winter reading challenge. This was a small sampling of students who completed the challenge as 187 in total took on the task!

“We want to get them off the screens,” said Ms. Ruyack. “The winter reading challenge helps to get them into the habit of reading.”

This year, students in kindergarten through grade 2 were challenged to read 20 minutes daily. Students in grades three through five read for 30 minutes. Each could choose 10 of the challenges presented by Ms. Ruyack. The challenges included reading about the holidays, with a flashlight, in a tent, to a family member, while wearing a hat, and many others! They were fun challenges and parents signed off when their students completed each of them.

A bulletin board with a light blue background that says Lose your head over a good book. There are large snowflakes and a large snowman whose head is tipping off.

Ms. Ruyack rewarded the students with cocoa, a pencil and a book mark, just a little incentive for them to read, read, read!

Great job to all!

Pine Bush schools are dismissing early, Friday, Dec. 20 Crispell – 1:05; PBHS, CVMS – 1:15; elementary – 2:30 No after-school activities or CTEC

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