Tobi's elementary school set up a reading contest among the 2nd-5th grades for the October Break (11 days). The teachers had noticed that students often lose reading fluency over school breaks. The goal was to see which class could read the most pages (at their grade level) over break.
As an avid reader myself, I was really excited about this contest. The first few days we plodded along with me giving a lot of encouragement. Bayo and I dedided to offer Tobi some prizes if he could reach certain levels:
600 pages = a candy bar
800 pages = a small container of ice cream
1000 pages = N1000 (about $8.50) for shopping
Well, he made it to 1001 pages at the last minute. I let him stay up til 11 p.m. the night before school started! Even though it probably wasn't good judgment to let him stay up so late on a school night, I was quite thrilled to see his determination to reach a goal under pressure.
After school I gave him his 1000 naira for a shopping excursion. Here's the breakdown of how he spent it:
N100--candy
N900--3 cans of fruit cocktail and canned peaches!
Last week I had found the peaches in a store, and Tobi was stunned beyond belief at this great treasure!
Tobi's teacher has been conducting periodic reading fluency tests for all the 2nd graders. It will be interesting to see if his reading fluency has gone up after this great burst of reading.
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4 comments:
Congratulations to Tobi on a job well done! With love from Grandma!
Keep reading, Tobi!! :)
Good Work, to both the parents and students and the teacher! Hey, your mom came over today and brought me the gift bags. Thanks to you both.
MBO, you can count your blessings that you don't have to see the terrible mud slinging on the political ads this season.
Great Job Tobi!!!!
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