First graders celebrate 24th Annual Wyoming Reads Day

CASPER, Wyo. (Wyoming Information Now) – The twenty fourth Annual Natrona County Wyoming Reads celebration was held on the Natrona County Library and Nicolaysen Artwork Museum (NIC) on Tuesday, Could 17.

Over 1,000 Natrona County first-graders from public, non-public, and residential colleges attended. Over 6,900 books had been distributed to first-graders at Wyoming Reads literacy celebrations held throughout the state in every of Wyoming’s 23 counties on the identical day.

“We’re right here to share with you the magic of studying. Studying actually is magic. For those who can learn you develop into a prince or a princess on a magical web page of a guide. For those who can learn you are able to do something,” stated Casper Cares, Casper Reads Founder John Jorgensen.

Movie star Readers from the neighborhood, together with First Woman Jennie Gordon, learn books to the primary graders at stations all through the Library.

“Simply having the ability to sit with youngsters who actually have that curiosity naturally and need to take heed to individuals learn it simply fills my coronary heart and fills my bucket,” stated Gordon.

After being learn to, college students loved a particular fairytale about “The Good Queen Sue,” a tribute to Sue Jorgensen, in whose reminiscence the occasion was established. The fairytale was offered as a play carried out on the Nicolaysen Artwork Museum, that includes college students from the Natrona County Excessive Faculty Theatre Division.

Wyoming Reads celebrations concentrate on the enjoyment of studying, highlighted by every baby receiving a hardback guide with their title printed inside the duvet, donated by the Sue Jorgensen Library Basis. Earlier this yr, kids had the chance to decide on which guide they want to obtain from six choices.

“Through the yr, it’s a part-time job getting it able to look this easy… Then you definitely get right here on this morning and also you see the enjoyment on the faces of those kids as they open that guide they ordered means again… We attempt to make it very thrilling,” stated Jorgensen.

Jorgensen established the Sue Jorgensen Library Basis in 1996 and based the Casper Cares, Casper Reads competition to honor his late spouse’s dedication to kids and studying. The celebration was expanded statewide as Wyoming Reads in 2006.

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