And they’re off! Derby festivities may have wrapped up in Louisville, but the race is just beginning for our budding kindergarten readers.

 

To celebrate the importance of helping children learn to read as soon as they enter school, Fayette County Public Schools has developed an exciting learning initiative called “Read for the Roses” for our kindergarten students. The goal of this program is to reinforce the idea that readers are born in kindergarten, where our teachers foster appreciation for literacy, and motivate our youngest learners to read for information and for pleasure.

 

In March, every kindergarten teacher in the district received lesson plans created by some of our most talented reading instructors and classroom sets of books to use with their kids. For the past six weeks, teachers have been focusing on reading with their students, laying the foundation for a lifetime of loving to read.

 

This awesome project will culminate at 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 10, when every kindergarten student and teacher in the district will come together to celebrate reading at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, located at 1600 Man o’ War Boulevard.