Read Across America Day

Once again, Read Across America Day was a great success!  Our Rotary Club has been visiting Latimer School since 2015.  Latimer is a Title 1 school in the Moreland District which serves grades transitional kindergarten through eighth.  

Each year, Rotarians go into the classrooms to celebrate reading and Dr. Seuss’ birthday. In the TK through fifth grade, we told the students a little bit about Rotary, read a story to the students, and left each student with a book to take home.  Due to scheduling issues, we did not go into the middle school classes; we hope to return to those classes next year. 

Over the twelve years we have been reading, our Club, through the Saratoga Rotary Charitable Foundation, has donated over 6,000 books to students!

Not only is this a wonderful day for our team of 18 Rotarian volunteers, but we also make a significant contribution to literacy in our community.  Reading is a critical skill for success in school and beyond.  Rotarians show their love and support of reading by going to the classrooms and ensuring that each student has a new book of their very own.

Special thanks to our readers, sorters, stampers, photographers, and coordinators: Sheeba, Verna, Archana, Soheila, David, Phil, Shannon, Barry, Reiko, Sangita & her mother in-law, Jim, Larry, Mary Ellen, Jo, Chuck, Alice and Parul.