Gardnerville Elementary celebrates reading

During the month of February, the students and staff at Gardnerville Elementary School participated in a read, read, read month challenge.

The staff challenged the students to read more minutes at home than the staff could.

Staff also called students at home throughout the month to try and catch them reading.

Those that were caught reading received a free mini pizza from Papa Murphy's and were entered in weekly drawings for books.

Gift certificates from Borders were given to the top readers in the intermediate, primary and staff. It then culminated with a celebration for Dr. Seuss' birthday with a literacy night filled with activities, cake and hot chocolate donated by Starbucks.

In the end, the staff read a total of 56,063 minutes and the students read 196,635 for a grand total of 250,698 minutes during the month of February.

Because the students out-read the staff, staff had to come to school on March 13 with hair of blue just like the hair of Thing 1 and Thing 2 from "Cat in the Hat."