Throwback Thursday / Mystery Readers

My sweet friend Traci over at Dragonflies in First

 recently wrote a little post that gave me a chuckle and got me thinking back.  19 years of teaching are sure to bring back some fun memories!  One of my friends ( and former parent from my past ) saw my facebook post about Where the Wild Things Are and commented…I remember when my son had visits from Zero the Hero.  { Her son is now a grown adult and married by the way }  Yes, that ages me a bit. :o/

Anyway I had to do a Throwback Thursday because Traci was posting about Miss Viola Swamp.  Well in 2008 I had the HONOR of teaching my own daughter and I came in as the Mystery Reader dressed as Miss Viola Swamp.  I acted like her and had the kids really second guessing.  LOL  It was great fun.  So I had to scan a page from my sweet daugter’s memory book to show you’all. 

 Do you have a Mystery Reader program?  It’s the best, the kids – parents – grandparents and even my former students just love it.

If you aren’t sure what it is —- let me explain.

Tell the parents about the program at back to school night and tell them if they or a special family member want to come in to email you and keep it a SECRET!!!

They will send you 5 clues – starting out very general.  I live in ____city.  To very specific by the end.  I have a pug…or I have a son in this class, etc.

The kids guess who it might be and I call down to the office to send the guest to my room.  I lay out the RED CARPET for them and they walk in and read a story to the class.  Sweetest thing ever and my students look forward to whenever we have one.  Here are some pics of some from the past.

A little girl’s grandpa was in town and read to the kids.

Our cute crossing guard came in to read to us.

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My awesome dad came in – that’s me with my daughter too when she was in my class a while back.   

Our mascot the Jackson Coyote came in to read with us, that was AMAZING!!!

Here is a picture showing how we literally roll out the red carpet for our mystery reader guests.

{ I was actually featured in Education World – if you click on the picture it will take you to the article about me }

Try the program it’s so fun for the kids and builds great community!  P.S. How do you like my updated blog design?

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