| Blues Bookworms Registration is now closed for the 2009-10 season.  The Blues Bookworms Program is a literary initiative to encourage students in grades K–6 to spend more of their leisure time reading. The free program is available to students in the greater metropolitan St. Louis area and runs from October to January.HOW IT WORKS Each month, students record the number of minutes read using the form provided by the Blues. Forms should be initialed by a parent/guardian and submitted to teachers. Teachers then submit their list of total classroom minutes online to the Blues each month. Every class that reaches or goes beyond the goal of 250 minutes per month per student will be entered into a drawing for a player appearance.* One classroom will be randomly selected each month to win a visit from a Blues player and prizes. All classes that reach their monthly goal will be highlighted on the Blues website, and may be eligible from a visit from other Blues celebrities such as Louie. If a classroom is selected to receive a Blues Celebrity appearance and there are multiple classrooms in that selected school enrolled in the Blues Bookworms Program, all classrooms in that particular school that have reached their monthly goal will be invited to participate in the Blues visit. The more classrooms registered per school, the better the chance of receiving an appearance
*In order to be eligible to win a player appearance, every student in the classroom must read at least 250 minutes per month.. If students do not read 250 minutes every month, they are still eligible for a free Blues ticket as long as they have read 1000 minutes by the end of January. Every classroom that participates will receive bookmarks for each student and a Bookworms poster for the classroom! A NEW YEAR This season, the Blues Bookworms program consists of nearly 11,000 students in over 450 classrooms around the Greater St. Louis area, making this the largest Blues Bookworms program to date! Blues Bookworms Book of the Month Kindergarten - The Magic Hockey Stick by Peter Maloney 1st Grade - ‘Z” is for Zamboni by Matt Napier 2nd Grade - Brady, Brady and the Big Mistake by Mary Shaw and Chuck Temple 3rd Grade - Hockey Hero by Jean Marzollo 4th Grade - The Hockey Mystery by Gertrude Warner 5th Grade - Ice Magic by Matt Christopher 6th Grade - Zamboni- The Coolest Machine on Ice by Eric Dergal Blues Bookworms All-Star Team Kindergarten - Jack G, Henry Elementary- Ms. Barton - 930 Minutes 1st Grade - Tristan J, St. Norbert Elementary- Ms. Margherio- 1434 Minutes 2nd Grade - Justin W, Fairway Elementary- Ms. Watt – 1950 Minutes 3rd Grade - Kurtis K, West Elementary- Ms. Pingel – 1860 Minutes 4th Grade - Nathan L, Castilo Elementary- Ms. Hiner – 3424 Minutes 5th Grade - Savannah M, Dorris Intermediate School- Ms. Mattea – 2788 Minutes 6th Grade - Larry B, Coolidge Middle School- Mrs. Macios– 2505 Minutes THANK YOU, TEACHERS! From everyone at the St. Louis Blues, we would like thank you for all your hard work and dedication you put in everyday. We understand just how important reading is for children and thank you for your extra efforts to make the program successful in your classroom. Teachers get tickets, too! As an incentive, if the teacher gets the majority of his/her students to reach the overall Bookworms Program goal (1,000 minutes per student at the end of the program), that teacher will receive a FREE ticket to the Bookworms game! If you have any questions please feel free to contact Randy Girsch at 314-589-5998. |
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