Chief Minister’s Reading Challenge - CMRC

2018 sees the return of the Chief Minster’s Reading Challenge to Holy Trinity.

Each child from the ELC to Year 6 is ‘challenged’ to read 15 age appropriate books over a 15-week time frame. (The challenge does go for longer but I try to wrap it up at the start of term 3). We will officially start the challenge Week 10 of this term and run it until after the July holidays.
I have been telling the children that - Any books read in the last month can also be included in the challenge (particularly for the big kids as their books take longer to read).

This year in line with the school’s efforts to reduce our carbon footprint and reduce the amount of paper that we use, all children will be recording books that they have read online in Google docs. We will be providing each child with a QR Code which will take them straight to the Holy Trinity Chief Minister’s Reading Challenge Google Doc where they will record; their name, which class they are in, the book title and when they have finished reading the book. To assist this process all parents need to download the QR Code Reader to their child’s tablet or to the parent’s smart phone.

The 15 books can be from class reading and individual reading. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry, EBooks, audio books, books on Overdrive, graphic books, home books and of course library books. As long as the books are age appropriate.

Generally, the ELC, Kinder and Year 1 complete the challenge in class but extra home reading and is always welcomed. All children can record books read in class - individually or with the teacher. Classes will have their own QR Code.

There will be a display in the hallway near Year 1 that keeps track of which child finishes the 15 books and a tally of how many books they have read.

There is also a raffle that runs throughout the challenge. Once a child reads 15 books they get a raffle a ticket. Prizes are given to each grade level from Redgum book club funds.

At the end of the challenge, I take four great readers to the awards ceremony, morning tea and a shop at Paperchain. Big fun!

Please contact me at kate.mertz@cg.catholic.edu.au for any further information.

Thanks in advance,

K x