Mississippi’s First Lady Elee Reeves visits two schools in Meridian

MERIDIAN, Miss. (WTOK) – Mississippi’s First Girl Elee Reeves made a cease within the Queen Metropolis on Monday.

She visited Crestwood Elementary College and Southeast Elementary to share her new activitiy ebook with fourth graders at each colleges.

The exercise ebook titled, Mississippi’s Fred the Turtle, tells the story of a sea turtle as he travels all through Mississippi visiting some particular websites within the state.

“We’re tremendous excited to share Fred with college students all throughout Mississippi. We needed to assist do one thing to assist impression fourth graders, particularly. Fred the Turtle, the story simply type of helps youngsters find out about being courageous, studying new issues, and gaining self-confidence. It type of will get them to suppose exterior of the field and take into consideration what they need to be once they grow old and all of the alternatives which can be on the market for them,” stated Reeves.

Shaletha Onyekwuluje, one instructor at Crestwood Elementary, stated she and the fourth graders had been excited to welcome the primary girl to the campus.

“I actually really feel like it is a as soon as in a lifetime alternative. They will return and inform all their family and friends hey I acquired to fulfill the governor’s spouse. She gave us a ebook and instructed us concerning the significance of studying and so I actually really feel like they’ll cherish this as soon as in lifetime alternative,” stated Onyekwuluje.

The primary girl plans to go to at the very least one college in each county within the state and has delivered 8,000 books up to now.

On the finish of the ebook tour, she plans to have delivered over 30,000 books to fourth graders throughout the state.

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