WE DID IT!! GO OTTERS!!

I just wanted to share some fun that we've been having at Riverview...

All summer we've been reading for Scholastic's "Read for the World Record" Challenge, and we have blown our own socks off!

The challenge started May 1st, and ran through August 31st, and during that time the students read, and read, and READ!! More minutes were read, than were logged I'm sure, but all the same the students did SUCH a great job, that Riverview was ranked FIRST in the state of Utah, and FOURTEENTH in the WORLD!  (Just got a call from Scholastic, and it's official!  Out of the 4,446 schools worldwide that participated, Riverview is ranked 14th!) The final tally's will be posted by Scholastic in a couple of weeks, and we are excited to see the FINAL totals.  The top 20 schools get their name in the Scholastic Book of World Records, 2013.  Yay us!! (flags in the pic below represent the top 20 schools =)

bookmarks!

I LOVE these bookmarks!  I've recently discovered digital scrapbooking, and I might be hooked, especially if I can play with cute kits like this one from Meredith Cardall!  (by the way, I did ask her permission before I posted this... check out her beautiful designs HERE.) These are one of the very first things i created, and I love them so much, I wanted to share them with you!

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Final Reading Minutes

The Final number submitted to Scholastic and the Utah Jazz:

202,571 Total minutes read

454.2 minutes per student here at Riverview! 

We actually read more than that, but that's the amount we had turned in by Tuesday morning!  Pretty impressive considering we are a brand new school!  We have a few prizes to give away, and we will be doing that during announcements Monday, February 27th. We have our two autographed books, two autographed photographs of Gordon Hayward and Paul Millsap, and TWO TICKETS to a JAZZ game!  I SO wish I could win!  =) We will post those lucky winners after they are announced on Monday.  

Thank you for your dedication to reading, and keep reading every day!

More love...

'Tis the month of "LOVE" so we continue the theme with a Beehive Book Award Nominee for 2012...

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Such a cute story!  I always knew that cows had good taste... =)

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This week in the library we will be GIVING AWAY NEW BOOKS!!  I don't know about you, but I LOVE new books!  If you have participated in our "Be a Team Player - READ!" Jazz reading contest, you can put your name in a drawing for a new book.  One new book per class will be given away, and at the end of the competition we will be giving away TWO books that have been autographed by two Jazz players, #25 Al Jefferson, and #8 Josh Howard!

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Yahoo!  I LOVE new books, and I LOVE giving them away!