Roseland Reads!

The time has finally come, our students worked their hardest to earn stickers for months by reading passages during tutoring! One by one, two by two, they placed stickers on the door at Roseland’s room 37, waiting for the magical day to come. Finally, it was time. Mentors joined a committee to plan the glorious activities for the day, which included read-alouds and art crafts for younger and old. 

 The lower graders were picked up first, in the early afternoon, and entered the room amazed to see the beautiful butterflies covering the ceiling that they had made in tutoring the previous weeks by folding paper with paint. As they took their seats, they were thrilled to learn that the book chosen to share with them was the ever-popular “The Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carle. After the dramatic reading by the brilliant Ben Browning, students made sequence necklaces: coloring in the fruits the caterpillar ate and marking his steps toward transformation until at least he was a beautiful butterfly! It was a great success and the students felt very rewarded for their hard work. 

Upper graders were next in line for the festivities. Our mentors chose a wonderful social studies book for the students, “If the world were a village” which explored the different demographics of the world on condensed scale. This book highlights what the world would look like if the entire globe population were reduced proportionately to 100 people. Read by the ever-eloquent Tracy Petroski, the tale highlighted age groups, religions, races, languages and geography on our planet, and made the information about world resources and valuables approachable and understandable for young readers. Students were each given packets discussing one of the different categories and illustrated their understandings of what the section discussed on a poster, which was shared with the large group. The students were intrigued and engaged, interested to learn about the different aspects of global society on such a simplified scale. Round two, another great success! 

Tutoring parties are always a super fun day filled with anticipation, excitement, and celebration here at Roseland. We are all ecstatic to plan our next and final party at the end of the year, and know it will be just as promising thanks to our amazing students!