A group of students from Hilton’s Village Elementary School presented Hilton Board of Education members and administrators with a little gift – a copy of Masterpiece by Elise Broach during a visit November 12.
Village students and their families are reading the book encouraging others to read it as well as part of One School, One Book, a program designed to create a shared reading experience within a single elementary school community. Each school chooses a chapter book, every family in the elementary school receives a copy, and every family reads that book at home over the course of a single month. In Hilton, staff, administrators and Board of Education members join in the experience.
This is the fourth year Village Elementary School has participated in One School, One Book. Mariana Ban, Ella Clark, Carter Davis, Samantha Hauck, Domenic Longwell, Zach Peter and Leah Ranieri introduced themselves and presented the books.
Masterpiece is about a boy, James, and Marvin, a beetle living under his kitchen sink. Marvin creates a tiny, detailed drawing, which resembles the work of the great Renaissance artist Albrecht Durer. James gets the credit, and soon the newfound friends are swept up in an art heist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, risking their lives in a fast-paced mystery about stolen art, forgery and friendship.
Studies have shown that reading to children helps them to listen better and longer, build bigger vocabularies, understand concepts better as well as feel positive about both books and learning.
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11/24/13
