Parents and children, arms around each other, with heads resting gently on shoulders. Children, cross legged on the floor, eyes and ears attentive and awestruck as they listened to the stories being read by teachers who were obviously passionate about the words they were reading. This was the scene as K.C. Heffernan Elementary School Librarian Michael Brown held his March open library night. The March 10, 2011 read-a-loud event was held in conjunction with the KCH PTO Spring Book Fair. The KCH Library foyer was filled with families and students picking out books to purchase from an exemplary sample of children’s literature. Inside the library, the seats and floor were packed with families anxiously awaiting the next book to be read by a steady stream of teacher readers. Librarian Michael Brown welcomed all to the read-a-loud evening as he read from “A Poem in My Pocket”. Among the teachers and staff reading at the KCH Open Library Night were:
· Susan Decker, reading teacher – “Jamie O’Rouke and the Big Potato”
· Rose Battaglia, 3rd grade teacher – “The Real Story of the Three Little Pigs”
· Jen DeCook, 2nd grade teacher – “The Napping House”
· Fran Hagan, art teacher – “Art and Max”
· Suzanne McClurg, 1st grade teacher – “Yertle the Turtle”
· Jody Wiley, Kindergarten teacher – “Where Did Daddy’s Hair Go”
· Erin Glass, Certified Occupational Therapist Assistant (COTA) – “The Giving Tree”
The open library night was brought to an exciting conclusion as Gary Bissaillon, KCH principal and Brown put on a “juggling” demonstration for the enthusiastic crowd. In this age of rapid fire technological advances and daily education funding challenges, the KCH Open Library Night reminds us of the central core of the teaching learning process: adults and children connecting together through the beauty and rhythm of the written and spoken language.
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