Elementary school reading night is all new
Staff writer
Family Reading Night at Hillsboro Elementary School will be all new this year.
Elementary media specialist Sandy Arnold is planning an entire evening of fun for the whole family on Tuesday, March 15.
The family reading night will not be a come and go event. Families will register and then spend the evening going through four stations.
Registration for reading night will be from 6:15 until 6:30 p.m. and the evening will culminate with a drawing at 8:05 p.m.
"There will be teachers involved with performing. It will be fun," said Arnold.
In addition to help from teachers and parents, this year's family reading night is also getting a hand from some Tabor students.
Joan Loewen's children's literature class at Tabor College will help with some of the stations.
When they register, each family will be assigned a color and that will determine at which of the four centers they will begin.
There will be a book walk in the library with tons of prizes including bookmarks, posters, cards, and books.
In the south end of the gymnasium will be a coffee house featuring poetry. Families can sit back and enjoy the show along with a cup o'joe.
A story and snack will be in the art room. "Grandpa's Teeth" will be read, and then apples, peanut butter, and marshmallows are combined to build grandpa some teeth as a craft/snack project.
March Madness is the theme of the fourth center. Families will enjoy a video of Hillsboro's very own "HES"PN. A sport video about why the library is so cool, filmed by Matt Carroll's high school video class.
The evening will be capped off by a reader's theatre performance in the gymnasium by fifth grade students.
Redetzke graduates from St. Scholastica
Mikosa K. Redetzke, daughter of Arnot and Georgina Munguya of Hillsboro, graduated from The College of St. Scholastica in Duluth on Dec. 18, 2004. She was awarded a bachelor of arts degree in organizational behavior. She plans to work for Buckle Incorporated and attend graduate school in the fall.
