Reading Rate rockets at Rancho

At the beginning of September, I reported 117 books read, or.looking at the data another way,3 million words read. On Oct.14 , thirty four days later, we're up to 882 books reported read,or 21,151,123 words. Today, Oct. 29th, we're at 1,507 books and 32, 684,304 words. In two weeks, Rancho students have doubled the number of books they're reading(was appoximately 22 books/day,now is 44 per day).

Halloween Parade- OCt.30th details

Rancho's Halloween parade will be in the Multipurpose room and through the hallways on Friday, October 30.

Grades 1 - 3 parade will be at 8:45am.
Grades 4 & 5 parade will be at 9:15am.
Kindergarten parade will be at 11:15am, and ALL Kindergarteners will attend school from 8:05 - 11:30am.

Please carpool or use the United Methodist parking lot on October 31!

NOTE: The parade will run INSTEAD of the usual Friday Flag Salute, so there will be NO Flag Salute October 30.

Please help us make this a fun and safe day by adhering to the following guidelines for costumes:

Costumes must be in good taste and appropriate for an elementary school.
Costumes must comply with the NUSD Board policy dress code (i.e., no bare midriffs, spaghetti straps, etc.)
Weapons (guns, sword, bombs, etc.) and blatant messages of violence are not permitted.
For safety reasons, masks may only be worn during the parade.
Thank you for your cooperation.

Reading Progress report

At the beginning of September, I reported 117 books read, or.looking at the data another way,3 million words read. Today, thirty four days later, we're up to 882 books reported read,or 21,151,123 words. I should explain that we don't count the books read by the students; we count the number of quizzes the students have passed on the books they have read. So the number of tests is always running behind the number of books read.
This year, we started at a distinct disadvantage: our Library Clerk unexpectedly took a leave of absence for family reasons, and the school library was clsoed for the first month of school. We finally found a wonderful substitute library clerk, Martha Paulos, and the library is now functioning well again. This means the kids are reading and testing at a much faster rate than the first month of school. I'm anticipating the number of books read per week here at Rancho to take another big upswing in the last two weeks of October.

Why I haven't been blogging recently...

But why I'm really happy to be alive. On my way to pick up my son from his uncle's house September 13th, I had an unfortunate run-in with a Pick-up truck. The pickup truck won. Miraculously, I walked away from the wreck alive and in one piece. But it took the wind out of my sails for a while, as you can imagine. I had to take some time off, and then I had to get all my projects back on track, one by one.
This is my week for starting up the blog again. Hopefully, I won't have this excuse for not writing again.
View every day as a gift to be treasured.