By Dan Bechtold, Editor
Winner 8th grade reading students joined classrooms across the county in celebrating reading and our 50 great states by participating in a Read Across America bookmark exchange. The Winner 8th grade reading class along with the advanced art class participated.
Each student was asked to make a bookmark that featured something about their state and city. On the back of the bookmark the students put their first name, a fun fact about themselves, the school, state and city.
The bookmarks were sent to a teacher in Reading, Pa. For each bookmark that was submitted a bookmark from another part of the United States was returned to the Winner School.
C. K. Storms, Winner 8th grade reading teacher, said the student sent 55 bookmarks and just last week received a package with about the same number of bookmarks.
“Each bookmark was a creativity aspect of what the students wanted to do,” she explained.
Preston Norrid said on his bookmark he drew a football and presented facts on how Winner had won several state championships.
The teacher in Pennsylvania who started the project said they received over 8,500 bookmarks from 85 schools and libraries in 24 states.
She created a Google map marking all the participating places.
The teacher said: “This small project is my way of celebrating something we all can agree on—our kids, reading and the beauty and diversity of the USA.”
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