Librarians host USN-wide reading challenge

The library team is putting the finishing touches on our plans for Read Across USN Week, taking place Friday, March 1 through Friday, March 8. Also save the date Tuesday, March 5 for Read Across USN Community Night in Hassenfeld Library from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
By Kate Pritchard, Library Director

You may have heard of Read Across America Day, celebrated every year on Dr. Seuss’s birthday, March 2. Here at USN, we are turning it into a whole week dedicated to reading in all its forms. We invite our whole community – students, families, faculty & staff – to celebrate with us by reaching for a goal of 25,000 pages read by our school community over the course of the week.

On Thursday, February 29 for LS and Friday, March 1 for MS and HS, we will send home tracking sheets with students so they can begin recording the number of pages they read. They will also be available for printing out on the library website. We will collect these throughout the week, up through Friday, March 8, and reveal the final count after we return from Spring Break.

Participation is entirely voluntary, but we hope many of you will join us. Reading is an important part of our lives and comes in all different forms, whether you’re listening to an audiobook while taking a walk, reading a picture book to a child, browsing a magazine on your iPad, rereading a beloved Calvin & Hobbes collection, or even reading sheet music. It all counts! And everyone who turns in a tracking sheet not only adds their number to our total tally, but also gets entered into a raffle for a bookish prize.

To really get us excited about this challenge, we’re hosting a Community Night in the library on Tuesday, March 5 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., featuring fun activities like a Hassenfeld Library BINGO game, a Nashville Public Library card sign-up station, and an opportunity to create custom READ posters for individuals or families. We’ll also have refreshments, special guest readers, and of course, plenty of books to help keep you turning pages. We hope to see you there!
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