A literary week at Cherokee Bend

Cherokee Bend students and staff participated in a week filled with reading and sharing the love of reading with others during Cherokee Bend READS Week in April. 

Students had fun with activities such as keeping up with daily reading logs and joining faculty and media specialists in dressing up as their favorite book characters. Students who donated a book got a star with their names on the bulletin board in the cafeteria. The students entered two drawings to win Scholastic gift cards. 

Many guest readers with a connection to the community of Mountain Brook visited classrooms, shared a book and talked about the role that reading has played in their own lives. Karin Ballstadt of The Gateway Chronicles series was a guest speaker for fifth- and sixth-graders. Other guests who came to read aloud were Nathan Pitner, Rich Webster, Alison Scott, Stephen Russell, Courtney Shea, Caroline Shea and Mountain Brook Superintendent Dicky Barlow. 

During the week, Cherokee Bend students donated 2,104 books to the Birmingham Reads Book Drive held by Better Basics. These books will be distributed to students in Birmingham through the organization’s programs. The Sixth Grade Ambassadors helped with the book collection each morning, and the PTO Mighty Men loaded all the books and delivered them to Brookwood Village at the end of the week.