Literacy Fair Game Plan (tentativelty at least)

Thursday, February 17 (all times approximate)

5:00—Kitchen workers report to grill hot dogs, make lemonade, and prepare for 6:00 p.m. meal. We plan to be prepared to feed 150 people, 100 children and 50 parents. We’ll need tables to seat these folks. Instead of table paper, we’ll run white butcher paper down the tables and provide crayons for the children to color with.

6:00—Guests begin to arrive. Children and their parents are invited to eat and encouraged to stay at their places at the tables until 6:30. This may require us to leave a craft at each place, perhaps a bookmark.

6:30—Children remain at their places at the tables where Julie Smith (along with a small army of volunteers) will lead the children in creating their own books. At this point, we’ll encourage the parents in attendance to meet in the fellowship hall to listen to speakers on literacy and the importance of good nutrition.

7:00—The children leave the fellowship hall and join their parents in the sanctuary where Cheri Williams will share a story, modeling how to read to a child.

7:15—Children and their parents will return to the fellowship hall where each child will be given a drawstring backpack that contains some basic school supplies and a small bag of cotton candy. We hope to have enough books to give all children in attendance at least 2-3 new (or nearly new books) and as many well-loved (worn) books as they can carry.

7:30-8:00 –Clean-up!