Red Carpet Event

Today Rhett was invited to his school's Accelerated Reader Awards Ceremony. Each student has an Accelerated Reader ("AR") goal for the semester, and to be invited to the AR Celebration students must meet their reading goals and pass the book quizzes. The school and AR Committee really work hard to make the celebrations special and motivating for the kids with fun decorations (Hollywood red carpet/movie star theme) and great prizes.

I went early to help set up for the event in the school dining room. We handed out black fedoras for the boys and red and purple boas for the girls and everyone got sunglasses. Each child had their name called and had a chance to go up on stage, walk the red carpet and receive a book, treat bag, king-size Hershey bar (for those that doubled their reading goal) and dog tag that had the school logo on one side and "AR Superstar" printed on the other.

Rhett at the 2nd grade table

Approximately 140 students attended. Here's the view from the stage:

After all the individual names had been called, there was a special drawing for $100 gift cards to a local toy store. One name was drawn for each grade...and guess whose name was drawn for the 2nd grade...Rhett's!!! Today was Friday the 13th, but it was a lucky day for him! His face lit up so big when they called his name--I was happy for him.

Here he is after the ceremony holding his gift card prize!

Congratulations, Rhett! We're proud of you. Keep reading!