February is I Love to Read month, and to celebrate, we are giving back! Mme. Newman’s grade 1 class from Maple Leaf School has been recruited to help Rosemary Zahn with her “Kenya Library Books Project”. Her goal is to send 42,000 pounds of books to Kenya to help fill the new library. A total of $8000 is needed to send the books with goal date of March 2020. To help her reach her goal, we are planning some community events!
On February 13th from 7:00-8:00, we will be having a Coffee House evening at the public library. Students from Maple Leaf School with be sharing short stories, poems, song’s all in celebration of literacy! There will be a donation table set up for the project. During the first couple weeks of February we will be visiting local businesses looking for sponsors for our class read-a-thon. For every dollar raised, our class will read one minute during the last two weeks of February; documenting our reading online!
On February 22nd from 10-2, we will be having a book sale in the Maple Leaf gymnasium. We are currently collecting book donations to add to the sale. All of the proceeds from all of these events will go towards the Kenya Book Project. If you cannot make it to one of the events but would like to help out, there is a go fund me page set up! Please visit our Facebook page “Kenya Library Book Project Morden MB” for more information on upcoming events!