HIGHLIGHTS: CLEVER GAME AT RAWLINSON…A VRP CLASSIC…MARCH BREAK…SPRING TERM SCHEDULES

CLEVER GAME AT RAWLINSON

Please enjoy this happy little note from Volunteer and VRP Board Member Elizabeth Morley:

“Our little readers at Rawlinson and I love to play a word game on the whiteboards if we have time.  It is a little bit like the old game of Hangman but we call ours Magnet People. I'd like to say, I invented the game, but it was one of our little readers who suggested it. Now it's a standby. I think of a word and put the right number of blank spaces on the board and they guess letters and find the word, building a funny person if the letters aren't in the chosen word. Then it's the child's turn. Today a child made three blank spaces. When I had guessed many, many incorrect letters, his eyes twinkled. I had to ask for help: Does the word have any vowels in it? No! He laughed. Finally, I got it. His word was VRP! He had been reading it on one of the bins of books. We both laughed for a long time. Here's to VRP, laughter, our young readers, and a happy March Break for everyone.”

A VRP CLASSIC

From NEWS March 2018

Keep Smiling!  New volunteer Carolyn Jackson who says “I’m loving my posting at Taylor Creek.” Had a sweet kind of touching incident last week that she shares with a chuckle:

“For the most part, I manage to deal with my manifestation of our family legacy by studiously ignoring mirrors. But this week during my VRP session, I was brought up short by a six-year-old—he of the enormous liquid brown eyes. As we read, he stared intently at me after each hesitant word. At first I thought he wanted approval that he had the right word. Then I thought maybe he was interested in the unusual necklace I was wearing. But by the time we got to page 6, he could stand it no longer.

“What is that?” he whispered, pointing at me.

“Oh that’s a special necklace that came all the way from Africa,” I said, holding it out for him to admire.

“No, not that That!” He pointed at my neck with alarm.

And there it was—a mirror in those beautiful dark eyes reflecting the turkey-gobbler neck that wobbles under the chin of each of my female relatives over the age of 60. I could hear them chortling in my head. I managed to suppress an urge to laugh myself and said lightly, “Oh that’s just some saggy skin on my neck. It’s because I’m old.”

His wrinkled his forehead and sat in silence for a few seconds. Then he looked into my face and said gravely, “I’m so sorry.”

Thank heavens for March break. I’ll have time to shop for turtleneck jerseys and fetching scarves so that I don’t put anyone off reading for life!

MARCH BREAK

Enjoy your March Break!  Please note: the next update to NEWS will be Friday, March 21.  Remember if you had a great VRP experience or read an article or found something that you think other volunteers would find helpful we would LOVE to share it here.  Thank you!

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