It's a bird...it's a plane...it's the SuperGirls Reading Society!

For the past few years, our school has had a special mentoring partnership for third grade boys with our neighboring high school. The football players come and visit with our students, work on literacy, writing, and leadership skills. It has been an amazing program for these students and one day at a leadership team meeting, I decided our third grade girls needed something to call their own. Enter the Supergirls Reading Society! (That name took MUCH longer to come up with than I'd like to admit!) One of my fellow counselors and I collaborated to come up with a plan for 7th grade girls to come to our school and mentor our third grade girls, while working on literacy, writing, and self- confidence skills. I have been toying with the idea of starting a book club for awhile and with the help of my assistant principal and media specialist, we found Sophie the Awesome by Lara Bergen! This is a GREAT book for 3rd and 4th grade girls and our group absolutely loved it this afternoon! I had to convince several of my students not to buy/rent the book this weekend, as we will be using it at each of our meetings this year! Luckily, there is an entire Sophie series, so we will be able to keep the girls updated with Sophie's antics even after we finish with our reading society. The girls had so much fun with their new book buddies today-they attempted to convince me to meet daily, so I'll consider the first meeting a success! Below are some photos of the afternoon and some of our work samples. Happy Friday!