Mrs. Bender’s 5th grade class from Avon Heritage North demonstrated their reading and acting skills through a reader’s theatre based on the novel “The BFG” by Roald Dahl. The students read the story during testing week. The students were divided into groups and performed the chapters of the story with props and costumes. The students did a great job reading their parts and their costumes were well done adding to the story greatly.
The students LaForgeville followed the presentation with an interactive game of Jeopardy Read Across America style using Dr. Seuss related categories. The Avon Students were divided into two groups and picked the category and their point value. The students from LaForgeville read each of the questions. The questions were very challenging gave the students an interactive and attentive way to reinforce reading and comprehension skills.
This program was part of the Read Across America program run out of the TWICE consortium in Michigan. The Avon Schools have sixteen RAA connections this school year with seven teachers doing their first collaborations over the systems. Avon and Laforgeville have a total of fourteen connections together which we hope will lead to more collaboration between our schools. They have been a pleasure to work with!
