Reading to Kids, 3/10/12

The second Saturday of every month ALD&PES partners with Reading to Kids to send volunteers to White and Esperanza Elementary schools to read to children.  It has always been a very rewarding experience, but I felt like this past session was one of the most fun I have attended.

Yesterday, 7 volunteers from ALD&PES volunteered with Reading to Kids.  Their theme for the readings this month was music.  I volunteered with the kindergarteners and it was so much fun.  They were all very sweet and well behaved and loved the book we read.  Our book was about Tubby the Tuba and how all that Tubby wanted to do was to play a melody in the orchestra and to be accepted by his fellow instruments.  Tubby befriends a frog who gives him the confidence to play a melody at the next concert.  After the novel we had arts and crafts activities.  Using cardboard cylinders, paper, rubber bands, and coloring supplies we constructed and decorated drums together.  The kindergarteners loved the drums and did not stop pounding away at their finished masterpieces.

After the reading and the arts and crafts section we took the children to the school auditorium where a musician performed for the children.  The musician was a guitarist and she played a wide range of songs from ones that she wrote herself to Bob Marley to Colbie Caillat.

Reading to Kids is a great organization and I look forward to attending every month.

~Brandon Lanthier, PES Service Chair