The Bulloch County Literacy Council will host its 2nd Annual Reading Nook Photo Contest February 14 through March 2. The contest is sponsored again this year by Kids World Learning Center.
Upload a digital photo of you reading with your child, ages infant to five-years-old, in your favorite reading nook, to this area of the Statesboro Herald’s website or at www.statesboroherald.com/readingnook anytime during the contest period. A reading nook is anywhere you and your child love to read.
Winners will be featured inside the March 5 edition of the Statesboro Herald as we celebrate the end of Read Across America Week and how families help raise readers in Bulloch County.
The community can visit the website as well to vote on their favorite photos.
This year the family with the overall winning photo will win a special reading nook with a collection of books. It was crafted from a bedside table donated by Bulloch County’s Spike’s Habitat for Humanity Restore, refurbished by Statesboro High School Construction students, outfitted with handcrafted cushions from Statesboro First Baptist Church’s Caring Threads Ministry, and stocked with new books from the Bulloch County Literacy Council.
The Bulloch County Literacy Council is a collaborative group of educators, representatives from literacy organizations, business and civic organization leaders, and community volunteers. Its purpose is to sustain a community collaborative that works to increase Kindergarten readiness for students from birth through Pre-Kindergarten and to support the improvement of literacy levels for all children in Kindergarten through fifth grade.
The Literacy Council’s Bulloch READ initiative works to accomplish the following:
- Reading: Encourage the creation of Reading nooks. Reading nooks are spaces at home or in the community where children can look and read books or have books read to them.
- Environment: Encourage a literacy-rich Environment.
- Access: Increase Access to book and reading resources.
- Development: Increase early brain Development.
