The EV2 Cares Service Learning Club has sent Book Buddies -- reading mentors -- to a West Omaha day-care center, and a North Omaha after-school program for some read-aloud fun and friendship activities.
A pizza party made the trip to TRI Community United Methodist Church,
6001 Fontenelle Blvd. in North Omaha, even more fun.
The volunteers have learned The Big 5 of Literacy -- phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension -- and have done fun little tasks to expand children's reading skills after they read a fun Dr. Seuss book together. Afterwards, they leave a gift for each child -- a "bookterpillar" made of pompoms to encourage the child to read 10 books and glue the pompoms together into a long bookworm.
The Book Buddies plan to volunteer in at least two more locations before turning their attention to other kinds of spring service projects.
The younger children showed great appreciation
to their middle-school Book Buddies . . . one little girl
even invited her EVVMS Book Buddy to her next birthday party!
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