Thank you! Thank you!

The following companies donated items to Carver Middle School's amazing readers:
  • Quick Trip - Generously donated more than enough free cookie and milk coupons.  In the middle of the year students were given a coupon for every 75,000 words they had read.  At the end of the year, 4 coupons were given to each million word reader.
  • Drillers - Generously donated a package which included four free tickets, a commemorative beach towel, and an official baseball magazine.  This package was given to the student who read the most words this year.  Brenna read 3,355,421.  We had three other three million word readers too.
  • Dominoes - Generously donated plastic cups for all million word readers.  We had 96!  They also provided approximately 80 "Delivering the Dough" pizza cards, and two coupons for a free medium pizza.  The cups and pizza cards were distributed in gift bags for million word readers.  The two pizza coupons were given to each of the second place readers, Will and Zach. 
  • Borders - Donated a Jersey Boys CD, a Rebels CD, a Canadian Brass CD, a paperback copy of Siverfin, a hardback copy of The Misadventures of Benjamin Bartholomew Piff , and a paperback copy of Chicken Soup for the Horse Lover’s Soul II .  The four top readers got to choose two items from a collection including these items and some other items.
  • The fourth top reader was Jack.  He got to choose between two prizes that I had in the library.

Thank you, Quick Trip, Drillers,  Dominoes, and Borders.  We didn't even call Quick Trip!  They provided this incentive on their own initiative.  (Initiative is a great life skill!)   Also, special thanks to the other donors who responded with such short notice.

Thank you to all of the students who read!  Thank you to all of the teachers and adults in the building who inspired our students.  Thanks to the parents who know how important reading is and helped their very busy children block in time to read.  Thanks to the students who shared favorite books and authors with other students.  Reading is everyone's responsibility.  Let's making reading contagious at Carver!!

Mrs. Edwards
Carver Library Media Specialist