Read to Your Baby: A Community Service Project

This year in Mrs. Thoman's class we completed a community service project to work on real world, persuasive writing. As a class, we worked to persuade new parents to read to their babies.

 

We used the computers on wheels to complete our research under the guidance of Mrs. Harvey. We were able to read and listen to several articles that outlined the most important reasons to read to babies.

 

 

Students took notes with a partner.

 

They used their notes to write a persuasive letter addressed to new parents.

 

Each student also got a board book that they practiced reading aloud. Mrs. Harvey recorded each student reading their book and put together a CD with each book read aloud.

 

The next step was to create a CD case. The students were able to create a CD cover in the computer lab with Mrs. Harvey.

Finally, our projects were complete! We had an opportunity to share them with Dr. Tower and our classmates.

Morgan explains the project to Dr. Tower.

Mrs. Harvey led a small group where the students we able to listen to each others stories.

Mrs. Thoman led a small group where students shared their persuasive letters and board books with their classmates.

Mrs. Tremblay led the gift decorating center. The students created cards for the new parents and selected their gift bags.

 

 We are very proud of the work that the 3T students put into this community service project. They are already wondering who will get the gifts and if the babies will like their new books.

 

The gift bags are all ready to go!

We had a wonderful time creating this project. We hope that all the new parents who receive a gift bag share the stories with their babies and inspire future generations of readers!