Blog #4 Christina Graves
2/25/13
I observed and interacted with my parents in my own
classroom as I start to prepare for an month long reading project in March. To
celebrate the birthday of Dr. Seuss and Read Across America, the national
effort to get people to read to children, I am planning a reading event of my
own. I am having a Mystery reader come into the class to read each day of March,
hopefully. This all is up to how many parents I get to volunteer. It should be
pretty interesting. So, in preparation for this, I have been interacting with
parents, director of our center, director of the Y and other community helpers.
I am trying to get a fireman to come. Well, I introduced it by putting the
information on the parent board which is right inside the classroom door on Thursday.
Today, Monday, I have one parent signed up and a few more saying they will. One
said she saw it but didn’t read it so she read it today and hopefully thinking
about it.
One learning experience that I have had is that it is not
easy to get parents to volunteer for something even so simple as one book. I
was wondering if I should use a little bribery and get like may be a coupon
from DQ or Macdonald’s or something if they come and read. This leads to one
insight that I have gained from interacting with the families. I have had a few
that were totally excited. One mom is getting both grandparents involved but
most seem to be ignoring the event all together. I hope it will just take some
time for them to plan and schedule the time. One the other hand, the managers
and directors at The Ymca are all getting involved in this. I have 3 already
and hoping for more.
Sometimes it's hard for parents to volunteer because of work schedules however asking for Grandparents, older siblings or aunts and uncles may get more involvement. Also, having an 'evening' read may also be another way to get more volunteers and more kids involved with family members.
ReplyDeleteI am also have a reader to come into my classroom. It is only for one day and it is one of the local librarian. She will read to the children and afterwards she is going the sign the children to get their very own library cards.
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