The Amazing Reading Road Trip

We have Scholastic Book gift cards to award to teachers for buying more books to add to their classroom libraries. For every photo submitted by a student, their teacher will get 1 point. The top 3 teachers for March will get gift cards in the amounts of $100, $50 and $25. So start following our calendar and snapping those photos.

Mem Fox is a well known and popular children’s author, and today is her birthday. She lives in Australia. Her first book was rejected by 9 publishers. Finally, someone was willing to publish her book, but they asked her to change the mice characters to possums in order to highlight an Australian theme. That is how “Possum Magic” became one …Continue reading →

One of our traditional March is Reading Month activities has always been to decorate classroom doors like our favorite books. Since we cannot have paper decorations in the hallways or on the walls with the current COVID guidelines, we are offering students the chance to decorate their own doors at home. If you don’t want to get into a project …Continue reading →

What better way to make a family member happy than to read to them! Read to a younger brother or sister or an older brother or sister. Read to a parent or grandparent. Read to an aunt, uncle or cousin. Read to anybody in your family! Make sure you take a picture of you reading to them and send it …Continue reading →

Happy Birthday to Dr. Seuss whose favorite color was purple. Wear something purple and snap a picture of you reading a book in your purple attire. Email to hansenr@dearbornschools.org to be featured here on our MIRM blog!

Welcome! This is the place we will highlight our activities for March is Reading Month 2021. We are all about jumping into a good book to travel to new places, meet new people and have new amazing adventures! This blog is what you make it, so check the monthly calendar for chances to snap some pics and email them to …Continue reading →