How are all you Rodney Children doing on Mayor Penny's Reading Challenge. Are you all still reading half an hour a day? If you are stuck for an idea, you can always come into your local Rodney library and ask one of the librarians for some ideas. It doesn't have to be a book - it could be a magazine. That counts.Mayor Penny has been busy visiting Schools around the area. Here are a couple of photos of her, first out at Tauhoa School at the beginning of the term, and earlier this week at Dairy Flat Primary School. She has been telling everyone how she enjoyed reading as a child. Here is her full Message to the children taking part in the 2009 Challenge.
"As a kid I th
ought nothing of readnig whenever I had a chance. Even at night ni bed I would lie half out of bed to read from the light in the hall. Books were a means of escape to amazing places, I could search through for treasure on an Island, fly a plan, slay monsters, all sorts of things. My mind could make up scenes in my head. it was just great fun. Imagination is pwoerful, use of words are powerful. Reading expands these. Keep reading and the world is yours."
ought nothing of readnig whenever I had a chance. Even at night ni bed I would lie half out of bed to read from the light in the hall. Books were a means of escape to amazing places, I could search through for treasure on an Island, fly a plan, slay monsters, all sorts of things. My mind could make up scenes in my head. it was just great fun. Imagination is pwoerful, use of words are powerful. Reading expands these. Keep reading and the world is yours."And how about all those mums and dads and grandparents out there joining Rodney children and you too can start a new habit .
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