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Yesterday, I had the pleasure of reading a couple of books to a group of kids and parents. I was invited by Channel 12’s Ellen Skrmetti to join local celebrities Malcolm White, Robert St. John and Louis Bruno at the Mississippi Children’s Museum. We read books out of The Dolly Parton Imagination Library (which is sponsored here by The United Way.) What a great program. Basically every kid in three targeted zipcodes (in Jackson, Canton and Pisgah area) will get a series of books until they are six. It’s an unbelievably awesome program to expose kids to books and to increase literacy.
I enjoyed it because obviously I am all about reading. You can’t read? Well you’re not going to be a Marshall Ramsey fan. And I’m also all about it because I know that an educated population is the keystone for our representative democracy. Our love of being entertained and not educated only works against us when it comes to election day.
So I read. And loved it. Thanks Ellen for allowing me to be part of such a great program. It was wonderful being able to give a little back to a community that gives me so much.
Wow! Great program!! Thanks for being a part!
what a great oppourtunity.
(MR you are a giving man & blessed man. muchas gracias por todo. Children love to listen to a good reader MR :) I believe this helped my children learn the language. Teaching music with a catchy melody & hand signals also helps kids learn to communicate, I do believe. Our precious Ana Cecilia, is now teaches this song to her beloved son, Gamaliel:
Los pollitos dicen pío, pío, pío
cuando tienen hambre,
y cuando tienen frío.
(the kids make gesture of shivering)
La gallina busca el maíz y el trigo;
Le da su comida,
Y le presta abrigo
(the kids make the gesture of Mom hugging her kids.)
Pío, pío, pío
(the kids should ham it up, making a little chick face!)