What a fun week it has been with Book Fair and College Week activities! The excitement both of these events generated was contagious throughout the building. We even saw parents at carpool sporting college shirts and camo in support of College Week, and we can't count the number of "loved ones" who visited the Book Fair! Your help and support is greatly appreciated!

In support of our Book Fair theme, Here's to Our Heroes, we do want to thank you for being a hero every day in your child's life. We could not do the fabulous things we do here at Fisher without you!

Don't forget tomorrow is the last day of Book Fair so plan to visit by 2:00 if you need to make a Book Fair purchase.

Another reminder, come visit the Fisher chili team and sample the Best Chili Under the Big Top at the Frisco Education Foundation's annual Chili Challenge tomorrow night (Friday, Sept. 24)starting at 5:00 at Pizza Hut Park.

Upcoming events:
Fall Picture Day Thursday, Sept. 30

I shared the following information in our PTA newsletter, but also wanted to post it here.

Since reading is such an integral part of every student’s education, we as educators promote reading not only here at school but also at home by requiring students to read twenty minutes each night.

One of our wonderful third grade teachers, Linda Moscovic, shared this great story with me which talks about the importance of reading twenty minutes each night.

Why Can’t I Skip My Twenty Minutes of Reading?

Let’s figure it out---- mathematically!

Student A reads 20 minutes 5 nights of every week.

Student B reads only 4 minutes a night….or not at all!

Step 1: Multiply minutes a night x 5 times each week.Student A reads 20 minutes x 5 times a week = 100 minutes/week.

Student B reads 4 minutes x 5 times a week = 20 minutes/week.

Step 2: Multiply minutes a week x 4 weeks each month.Student A reads 400 minutes a month.

Student B reads 80 minutes a month.

Step 3: Multiply minutes a month x 9 months/school year.Student A reads 3600 minutes in a school year.

Student B reads 720 minutes in a school year.

Student A practices reading the equivalent of ten whole school days a year.

Student B gets the equivalent of only two school days of reading practice.

By the end of 6th grade if Student A and Student B maintain these same reading habits, Student A will have read the equivalent of 60 whole school days.

Student B will have read the equivalent of only 12 school days.

One would expect the gap of information retained will have widened considerably and so, undoubtedly, will school performance.

How do you think Student B will feel about him/herself as a student?

Some questions to ponder:
Which student would you expect to read better?

Which student would you expect to know more?

Which student would you expect to write better?

Which student would you expect to have a better vocabulary?

Which student would you expect to be more successful in school?