A Fairy Tale Ending to PARP in Babylon Village

Extending classroom lessons on the importance of developing a lifelong love of reading, kindergarten through second-grade students at Babylon Elementary School in the Babylon School District once again participated in the Parents as Reading Partners program this April.

This year’s event was themed “Once Upon a Time…Read Happily Ever After” and called for the students to enjoy books in the genres of nursery rhymes, fairy tales, fables, folk tales and legends. 

With a school-wide goal of reading 10,000 books, the students were encouraged to read during free times and nightly with their families over the course of the three-week program. Their weekly progress was charted on a Rapunzel-themed display at the school.

Throughout the program, special community and school district visitors read to the students in their classrooms. Students also had the chance to visit the PTA book fair and attend schoolwide events, such as a ballet presentation of “Snow White” and National Marionette showing of “Peter and the Wolf.” Additionally, first-grade students in Leah Weissinger's class completed a reader’s theater production they called “Fairy Tale Party,” and each Friday the entire school came to school dressed based on a different PARP theme day. 

Information courtesy Jennifer Kuefner/Syntax.