With that in mind I have started a Walk and Read club at my school. We are partnering with my daughter's kindergarten class. Also we are partnering with several schools locally.
The following is a letter I am sending to Michelle Obama:
Dear Ms. Obama
Greetings from Madison, Mississippi. I want to declare
W.A.R. on obesity and illiteracy.
Please hear my strategy. It is inspired in part by your
effective Let’s Move campaign.
First, I need your help for my daughter, Mary, a first year kindergarten
teacher and her students, and for thousands of others across the country.
Mary, like countless other elementary school teachers, need
at least a couple of other hands and minds in their classroom. I am trying to
get iPads for her students and eventually for 1000s of others as did the
Coachella Valley Unified School District and the McAllen Independent School
District in California and Texas. (The
Tennessean, September 5, 2013)
These iPads will help them read not only books but the
world. They will give the teachers yet another way to broaden their learning
community.
My plan is simple. A teacher will write a grant for a
classroom set of iPads to a foundation, hopefully, started by you. This will
not be a straight give-away program. Teachers who are interested will have to
take the initiative to apply. W.A.R. will be well published through the media
and the internet.
Once they are received the teacher’s students will be asked
to walk so many miles a day. Initially this could be as little as a lap around
the track or the school. A goal set of miles would be set for the class. Once
this is goal is reached; each student would receive a book.
Then another goal of many more miles would be set. Once this
goal is reached; the students would receive not only a book but also a video. This
video would be from someone “famous” that they admire, such as you, reading
that book to them.
Finally, another much larger goal would be set. Once this is
reached; the students would receive another book and a visit. The visit would
be from their hero who would read that book to the class.
To get this started, I have begun a W.A.R. club at my school
to help my daughter’s class in Jackson, Tn and many other classes locally.
Will you help declare W.A.R. with us?
John R. Banks
Madison Central W.A.R. Club
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