Aaron Conner Professional Development Log Read for the Record The Read for the Record event

t was school wide and themed on the book Otis by Loren Long. My group worked to decorate the front door and entry way into the cafeteria. We used the themes from the book and attempted to make the entrance to the cafeteria look like the front of a barn. We decorated it with grass, barn doors, and a rope sign that said Welcome to Read for the Record! The other groups went into the cafeteria and decorated the stage with a lake, mud pit, an extra barn, the character Otis, and clouds. We attended the Read for the Record event with our respective classes and watched as the teachers used the story and the book to reenact the book. They were dressed up as the different characters and after the play was done they spoke about the benefits of reading.

Open House The Open House was obviously a school wide event and was themed on Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. The theme was called Wild About Reading and my group was very active in helping to plan and decorate for this event. A week before the event was supposed to take place we were tasked with the decoration of the main hall from the front of the building to the main class area. We first made trees and grass for the forest, water and a ship for the sea, and a bedroom dcor for the Maxs bedroom. The entire hall was supposed to imitate the trip from the forest across the sea and back into his room again. We also made a few paper Maxes and had them hanging from the ceiling and stuck on the walls. We also made every wild thing and had them placed throughout the hall. We hung up paper vines from the ceiling and put the words WILD ABOUT READING where everyone could see. At the open house the program was done similarly to the Read for the Record and the teachers them opened their rooms to the parents who then walked through the school and met with their childs teacher.

PTO Math Night On Math Night my group set up and manned the math games table. We set up the table with many board games and card games that kids like and that had to do with math. We did not however, go on until the program was finished. The program was basically a repeat of the widely successful Veterans day program. The students performed a routine before coming together and singing many patriotic songs and thanking the veterans for their service to our country. Then the principal took the microphone and began to introduce the Math Night and released all of the students and parents to go through the school and look at some of the artwork and to come down the math hall and play with the games or look at the different math books that were set up. Most of the parents did not come down the hall with their child as it was 9pm on a school night. They went and looked at their childs artwork and then left. We still had a great time and enjoyed helping the few students that did come by.