By Lizz Peterson | Project Leader
Dear supporters,
Your donation to Common Hope is helping bring to joy of reading to our students! Thank you for making this possible.
Celebrating Day of the Book at New Hope School
At New Hope school we celebrated International Book Day with our affiliated families who came to read with their children for half an hour. The mothers acted out fairy tales and stories for the younger students and some employees masqueraded as the children’s favorite book characters!
With our highschool students we talked about important Guatemalan writers and their works, and played word searching games with the dictionaries. This day was a huge success for everyone; 115 parents and grandparents participated.
Book Celebrations at Antigua
In Antigua we had a whole week of Book Celebrations! Starting with a trip around the world with books from 80 different countries, which was a lot of fun for our students to learn about other cultures, animals and habits. Every day our library staff read a book with the kids followed by a fun activity afterwards like playing bingo with words that were learned in the lecture!
Our students also participated in some artistic activities like creating a pop-up book and a drawing of their favorite book. To make things extra fun, the students who have borrowed the most books and participated in reading classes this year received a little prize to celebrate their love of reading! It was a wonderful week celebrating the joy of books!
We want to know, what is your favorite book? Did you celebrate International Book Day?
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