Cornerstone Students ‘Reach for the Stars’

By Linda Hider

WOOSTER DISTRICT — Cornerstone Elementary School completed an Usborne Reach for the Stars reading incentive program in which students were challenged to read a minimum of 300 minutes in two weeks and accumulated a total reading time of 16,356 minutes.

Educational consultants Barbara O’Loughlin and Megan Ries kicked off the program.

Reach for the Stars is a pledge program that brings the pledges back to the students in the form of Usborne Books.

The students read for two weeks, which includes homework and any other reading they do during the day.

Cornerstone students collected more than $2,000 in pledges and received $1,000 for themselves and $1,200 for their teachers and classrooms.

A kindergarten class earned an ice cream party for collecting the most pledges.

A sixth grade class earned $50 more books for reading the most minutes.

For information contact O’Loughlin at 330-264-4002. Her online bookstore is available at www.ubah.com/G2766.

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