AMS Celebrates its 11th Annual Read All Day with a Special
Guest:
Author Jennifer Roy!
Read All Day is a special day set aside to celebrate books,
literacy and reading at Algonquin. AMS
Principal Mr. Messia kicked off Read All Day by reading a short story to the
whole school, along with a humorous PowerPoint presentation he made for the
story. Special guest readers,
(administrators, faculty and students), generously volunteered their time to
read to large groups in the auditorium.
Readers included Mr. Rhode, grade 5 Poestenkill Teacher, Mike Ainsley
and Logan Fahrenkopf, APHS students, Mr. Bishop, APHS Assistant Principal and
Athletic Director, Mr. Anderson, grade 7 Social Studies Teacher at AMS and Mr.
Sibson, Miller Hill-Sand Lake Principal.
Teachers also had the opportunity to take a portion of their class to
read aloud to their students.
Award winning author Jennifer Roy was Algonquin’s special
guest for Read All Day. Mrs. Roy lives
in Saratoga Springs and is the author of 35 educational books, along with
fiction books Yellow Star, MindBlind, Trading Faces, (book
one of a series of four books written with her twin sister Julia DeVillers) and
Cordially Uninvited. Generous
support for this author visit was provided by Student Council.
Mrs. Roy presented to each grade and spoke specifically
about her book, Yellow Star, a fiction book based on her aunt Sylvia Perlmutter’s
Holocaust survival story. Incredibly,
her aunt was one of 800 children who entered the Lodz
ghetto in Poland
Students had an opportunity to meet Mrs. Roy and talk with
her as she signed their books after school.
She gave Algonquin students, faculty and staff a memorable day they
won't soon forget!
Check out this animoto video to get an inside look at Read
All Day:
Read All Day was coordinated by Mrs. Ekstrom, AMS Librarian
and Mrs. Conti, grade 6 AMS Literacy Teacher.
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