The children of LA1, Year 1, Ashdale Primary read 100 books with some of the parents before school each morning in Term 3, 2009.  The children where very keen to read so that they could add a sticker to the chart.  We all cheered when we reached 100.  We hope the children who receive the donated books will enjoy them as much as we enjoyed reading ours.

Room 5 Year 3 from Australind Primary School. These children read 100 books in The Classrooms Care Project.

Robyn Cranley

Room 6 Year 3/4 from Australind Primary School - these children read 100 books in The Classrooms Care Project.

Regards
Robyn Cranley

Bankstown Public School - Our class, 2W, took on the challenge to read 100 books with great enthusiasm and commitment. It didn't take long to reach our goal because we love reading both at home and at school. It was fantastic to be able to help out other children with some new books.

Sue Harris, teacher at Barnawartha Primary School writes: “I gave the challenge to our P/1 class to read 100 books. With much enthusiasm they accepted. They were pleased with their efforts and are continuing to enjoy reading. I think they will all participate next year again. Thanks Scholastic!”

Beckom Public School students (a small school of 12 students from K-6 in the Riverina, NSW) are pictured holding their ClassroomsCare Certificate after successfully reading 100 books. Volunteer Librarian and organiser of the project was Mrs Linda Griffin.

The year two students in room 4 at Bicton Primary School, WA, made the most of the rainy and chilly weather by staying inside. We drank warm cups of Milo and read 100 books in one week! We imagined we were in the warm sunny places we read about.

Year 1 (Boggabilla Central School) were very excited to keep track of how many books we have read and we got to work straight away. We counted the books that we read in the classroom. We had so much fun doing it that we now have a book chart up all the time! Pictured are only half of our amazing students. Thank you for helping others. - Cemone Baker

Prep M enjoyed reading 100 Books so that 100 kids in need will get free books. "Hooray! We read 100 books to make a difference!"

Carly Miller
Boneo Primary School

Hi, this is a photo of Grade 1 from Boneo Primary School just after we completed the 100 book challenge. The students we’re really excited and enjoyed the challenge.

Thank you
Regards,

Fiona Campanella

Hi! We are the Year 3 class at Booleroo Centre District School. Reading is one of our favourite subjects and we are really happy to help other students get some great books to read. Thank you for this great idea - we like it so much we have nearly finished our second chart!

The Year 4/5 class at Booleroo Centre District School in South Australia are happy to be helpful and read 100 books and give 100 books to people in need.

Hello! We are in Year 6/7 at Booleroo Centre District School in South Australia. Our class has completed reading 100 books and we are glad to give 100 books to kids in need.

Mrs Exton and Year 1 class and from Bordertown Primary School in SA, with their completed poster.

16 students from Borenore Public School Infants class with their teacher Mrs Debbie Guisard were very excited about the idea of reading to give. They decided to work together during school hours to read the 100 books so that other children would receive books. In just 3 weeks the students had reached their goal and received their certificates and book marks from Mr Russell Turner our local MP during Education Week. Thank you Scholastic for giving us the opportunity to help others, while learning and having fun at the same time. - Debbie Guisard

Well done to Ms Shute’s Year 5/6 Class from Braeview Primary School in S Aust for participating in the Scholastic Classrooms Care programme. The photo shows Maddie and Jeff with the chart their class marked their reading progress on. They all thought it was a wonderful opportunity to help some kids less fortunate than themselves.
Congratulations for being such a great class of caring readers!

Mrs Kath Dean and students from Bunbury Primary School WA (Room 1, Year 1)

We had great fun reading all these books.

We hope that all the kids getting these books enjoy them too.

1K at Cabramatta Public School had great fun reading 100 books both during class and at home. We were motivated and excited to read lots and lots of books so that we could colour it in on the chart. 1K was happy to help other children get access to fantastic books to read like we do everyday!

Cheers,
Namrata Kumar
Classroom teacher
Cabramatta Public School

Hello, we're from 4KB at Canberra Girls Grammar School. As a class we worked together to read 100 books. It took us a while and was challenging but it was very fun. Reading the books taught us that we should read regularly to improve our reading skills. We are very happy that our reading helped children in need and we have decided to read another 100 books! Ms Kylie Baines.

4KB from Canberra Girls Grammar School have read ANOTHER 100 books. Here is a photo of us with our second poster. The girls are very proud of their achievement, thank you Scholastic for encouraging their reading. - Ms Baines

The children of 1T, Carlingford West Primary School have read 100 books in a very short time. They were very excited to participate in such a good project. They were happy to help provide books for children in need. They hope the children who receive them will love reading as much as they do.

Thankyou
Jenny Tomkins
Class Teacher

Class 3-4G at Caves Beach Public School love to read but when their teacher Mrs Gardner told them about the Classrooms Care project they were excited to help other kids discover the joy of books. We bought 100 new books from Scholastic Book Clubs and set about reading them for the challenge. We hope less fortunate kids will enjoy the new books as much as we did.

Christ the King School, Beaconsfield, WA. Year Six Gold have completed their goal of reading 100 books.

The Year Ones in the J10 class at Challis ECEC have completed the Classrooms Care challenge. We all love reading and were excited about reaching our goal and helping others by doing it. We have read over 200 books from our class library, our school library and from our reading book boxes and we’re still reading. We hope the children who receive the books we’ve helped to supply develop a love of reading too.

Chapman Primary, ACT

Our whole school took on the Reading is Giving project with much enthusiasm and dedication. We all enjoyed reading books so others could have the same opportunity.

We valued the generosity shown to us during the Canberra bush fires many years ago and are always happy to contribute to help and support other children in need.

We hope that these children enjoy reading their new books as much as we enjoyed reading them. Thank you Scholastic for creating such a wonderful opportunity for us to participate in.

Michelle May.

Hi, we are a Grade 6 class from Claremont Primary in Tasmania and we have all been very enthusiastic about reading books so we can help out those in need. The students have enjoyed colouring in the hearts and have been motivated to finish before the end date. We have done it with plenty of days to spare. We are glad you are giving 100 books to kids in need, as reading is such a fantastic thing to do. Thanks again, Claremont Primary Gr 6's and Miss Slater

Our Year 5-7 class at Clarke Creek State School has enthusiastically read the required number of books and wish all the children who don't have any books to receive some and enjoy them as much as we do. Jenny Eeles

Tanya Richie, teacher at Clifton Hills Primary School in WA, writes: "Year 4 students from TA10 were extremely keen to participate in the ClassroomsCare project and we were all very excited when we had reached the goal of reading 100 books.

We enjoyed participating in this reading project and receiving the rewards, but all agree that the best reward was being able to raise 100 books for students who are less fortunate than ourselves and do not have as much access to books as we do.

Our class believes that reading is one of the best gifts you can give to another person, so thank you Scholastic for providing us with this opportunity to help share this gift with others."

The children in TA1 at Comet Bay Primary, WA, were very excited to hear how they could help children in need by simply doing their home reading! We read 100 books in just a few weeks. Thank you Scholastic! Paige Goodsell (Year 2/3 Teacher)

Year 3/4/5 (Cordalba State School) were very keen to read the 100 books and are very excited to be able to help people less fortunate than themselves to be able to read books as well.

Jan-Marie Rayner

The year 6/7 class (Cordalba State School) relished the challenge to read 100 books and did so with enthusiasm and were very proud of their achievement.

Jan-Marie Rayner

The Prep year1 and year 2 class (Cordalba State School) had lots of fun completing the classroomscare project and as well as enjoying the stories they were really excited to be able to colour a book. They cheered really loud when they reached 100 books.

Jan-Marie Rayner

The Kindy / Pre-Prep children of Cribb Street Community Child Care Centre (Sadliers Crossing, QLD) thoroughly enjoyed reading 100 books with the thought of sharing this enjoyment with others in need.  The books covered many topics and interests and increased their literacy skills as well as numeracy skills through counting how many stickers to put on the chart and how many books we still had left to read.  The poster was displayed on our room door and many of the children liked showing their parents how many books we had read, very proud of their achievement!  Even though the children have completed reading their 100 books and filling in the chart, they are still reading many books each day and are looking forward to participating in Book Week at the end of August.

Thanks,
Mariann Burnett (Kindy / Pre-Prep Teacher).

Debbie Callinan teacher at Ellerston Public School, NSW writes: Our school of 23 students thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity of helping others less fortunate than themselves by reading for ClassroomsCare. In the space of just over 2 weeks, our kids were able to read the 100 books by borrowing from the library and reading home readers.
The whole school displayed a united effort involving and encouraging all students from Kinder to Year 6. We all were pleased to be involved. Thank you to ClassroomsCare and congratulations on encouraging us in "Reading is Giving".

Year One at Ellison Public School have finished the reading challenge. The classes are 1C and 1D. With teachers Ms Cooper and Mrs Dempsey. We have included photos of us with our finished charts.

Thanks this is a great project.
Jacqui Cooper

The children in 2S at Ellison Public School completed the reading challenge with great enthusiasm. We read 100 books much more quickly than we thought we would, and had great fun doing it! We're really happy we can help other children enjoy good books as much as we do.

Mrs Smith and 2S

Mrs Davies & Year 3 Room 22 at Forest Crescent PS in WA. We love reading and so we knew it wouldn't be too hard to read 100 books! We printed out the bookmarks and every time we read a book we put a sticker on the chart and on our own bookmark to keep individual records. When we reached 100 books we gave three cheers!