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November 16, 2012

As Ceres students read, bookworm grows

By MATT CHRISTIAN Princeton Times

CERES — There is a giant worm making its way around the halls of Ceres Elementary School.

Principal Mary Terry told the Mercer County Board of Education at Tuesday evening’s local school improvement council sessions that as Ceres students finished reading a book and wrote a report on it, that the report was being added to Bookley, a black, red, and white worm in the school.

“It gives the children something to be proud of,” Bridgette Pendleton, the creator of Bookley said a day after Terry spoke to the board. “It helps children to read when they get a sense of accomplishment from it.”

Pendleton explained that sometimes students did not like to read and giving them an incentive to do so helped them to become independent readers. Independent readers are the goal of creating Bookley because they become better readers.

Still, Pendleton had her eyes on her goal. She wanted to see the worm make its way around the walls of the school. At the end of the year, students in the class that has read the most books get a prize.

“The children in younger grades, they can read a classbook,” Pendleton said. “They’re probably not ready to be able to read on their own yet. They help the teacher write the report and then I hang it up.”

Pendleton took a minute to look at Bookley and the Ceres students’ progress. She said it would mean the world to her as a teacher to see the students stretch the worm throughout the school.

“It’d be the most exciting thing,” Pendleton said. “It would be fantastic.”

— Contact Matt Christian at mchristian@ptonline.net.

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