CARROLLTON, MI - Carrollton Elementary School students helped unwrap a particularly large present early Tuesday morning, March 1, finding inside a vending machine stocked full of books and covered in Cavalier colors and characters.
Classes of 1st and 5th-grade students were gathered to watch the unveiling of the new machine, which the school is introducing to kick off March is Reading Month.
“This is something that we have wanted to get for about two years. We were trying to find a funding source for it,” Principal Sarah Coates said. “We were invited to Literacy Leadership Network, (a professional development program through the Michigan Department of Education and others), and as part of participating in that we got the grant dollars.”
Rather than use the machine as a reward incentive, the school is giving every student a chance to use the machine and get a book.
Each week for the rest of the semester, the school will draw from a bucket containing the names of all 730-plus students to receive ‘gold coins’ they can use to exchange for a book. First-grader Jaxon Villareal and 5th-grader Kennedy Kibbey were given coins for helping Coates unwrap and present the machine to students.
“We have been working very hard to build an excitement around reading for kids. We’ve also been working over the past few years to build their at-home reading libraries,” Coates said. “This is kind of just another way for us to get them excited about reading, get them excited about books and hopefully make it a bit more magical for them.”
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