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PHOTOS: Highland View's Read 20 Reaches Over a Million Minutes
Teachers came outside holding numbers to reveal the whopping total of reading minutes done by Highland View Elementary students over the course of the school year.
Chants of victory were heard from students outside of Highland View Elementary School on Friday afternoon as their teachers revealed their final Read 20 numbers.
The second annual program, which kicked off last September, encourages students to read at least 20 minutes everyday outside of school to reach a collaborative goal of 1,000,000 minutes at the end of the school year.
The hard work paid off. Students cheered as their teachers revealed 1,125,125 minutes read, beating last year’s total. One class even read 2,500 minutes in one night, said Principal Leni Dietrich.
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This year fourth grade challenged other grades to do 40 minutes of reading a night instead of 20.
“We try to give kids different things to get excited about in education,” Dietrich said. “In order to be successful in science and in math you also have to read.”
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