Elementary schools book community readers

Thursday was Read to Kids Day at all four elementary schools in the Maricopa Unified School District.

Community volunteers were invited to come to their neighborhood school to read a book to kindergarten through second graders. For each book read the school’s library received a book to keep.

Parents, policemen, firemen and residents joined in the United Way’s Success by Six project, which was also sponsored by Qwest.

In Amber Jensen’s kindergarten classroom students were immersed in stories about frogs and Clifford the Big Red Dog. Therese Starkey and Brenda Crean, both from Province, delighted the children with renditions of two of the kids’ favorite books.

Although the number of readers for the day is not yet known, Read to Kids Day is an annual event, bringing new faces into the classrooms and providing fun for the students involved.

Photos by Joyce Hollis