Read for the Record

On Thursday, October 8, 2009, Elmont students joined in to help “Read for the Record.” This date was set to break the world record for the number of people reading the same book on the same day. This year’s book was The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. The students in Mrs. Keehn’s and Mrs. Mathes’ first grade classrooms had a special guest read to them. Dr. Alexa Posney, who at that time was the Kansas Commissioner of Education, read to our first graders. It was an honor to have her at Elmont, reading to our students.

The entire student body watched an animated reading of the book during morning assembly and Mrs. Diederich submitted our numbers to the help break the record. In the last email from the sponsor, over one million people had read that book on October 8th.