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Robinwood Elementary hosts reading rally
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Neighbors | Submitted.Right to Read Week at Robinwood ended with a fun reading rally on Feb. 10, but throughout the week, plenty of excitement for reading happened around the school. Blake Allen (center), a YSU basketball player, posed with a group of fourth grade boys after reading a story in their classroom.
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Neighbors | Sarah Foor .Robinwood teachers and staff completed an impressive dance routine to close their Feb. 10 Reading Rally for Right to Read Week. The dance ended with the teachers holding up signs urging "Spartans...Start Reading!"
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Neighbors | Submitted.Boardman School District superintendent Frank Lazzeri warned "the redcoats are coming!" with a book about Paul Revere during a visit to Robinwood Lane Elementary to read to students for Right to Read Week.
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Neighbors | Submitted.Throughout Right to Read Week, the students at Robinwood Lane participated in fun dress-up days and reading activities. Feb. 7 was celebrated as "Blackout Day." Fourth-graders like Lauren Green (left), Sydney Moon, and Yasmin Musleh wore dark clothing and read by flashlight in the dark on Feb. 7.
By SARAH FOOR
The successes of Right to Read Week at Robinwood Lane Elementary were hard to ignore. Instead of ending its week by closing their books, the school held a reading rally full of dancing, singing and fun on Feb. 10 to celebrate.
Fourth-grade students led their younger classmates in fun sing-alongs to popular songs modified to champion books. “Celebrate (Good Times)” became a cheer for good books and “YMCA” instead had students spelling out R-E-A-D.
Between performances, fourth-graders read funny February and Valentine’s Day poems to the crowd.
Excitement rose to a fever pitch when teachers Melanie Oberle and Jen Flores took center stage and started to dance. In a surprise move, the entire staff joined Oberle and Flores in an impressive choreographed dance to the pop tune “I Gotta Feeling.”
Fourth-grade teacher Jeanette Tamulonis said the teacher’s flash mob was embraced by all of the staff.
“When we offered the idea, there were no second thoughts. We have a really supportive staff and we’re not afraid to be a little silly if it will keep our students this excited about reading,” Tamulonis said.
Although the rally marked the end of Right to Read at Robinwood, teachers and students said that fun lasted all week.
Community officials and local sports stars read to Robinwood classrooms throughout the week and staff and students enjoyed dress-up days like “dress like a principal” and “blackout.”
“The excitement of Right to Read Week goes far beyond these five days,” Robinwood reading specialist Jamie Malish promised.