Get ready for Read Across USN Week
Hassenfeld Library invites the USN community to celebrate Read Across USN Week starting Friday, January 9, through Friday, January 16. To reach our goal of 300K pages, students will receive tracking sheets so they can begin recording the number of pages they read each day from January 9-16. There will also be a digital form on the library website for participants to submit their page count online if they prefer.
Click here to volunteer during Community Night in the Hassenfeld Library, when we celebrate this week of literacy 3:30 to 5 p.m. Thursday, January 15.
Click here to volunteer during Community Night in the Hassenfeld Library, when we celebrate this week of literacy 3:30 to 5 p.m. Thursday, January 15.
By Kate Pritchard, Library Director
You may have heard of Read Across America Day, celebrated every year on Dr. Seuss’s birthday. At University School of Nashville, we’ve turned that idea into a whole week dedicated to reading in all its forms. We invite our whole community – students, families, faculty & staff, and alumni – to celebrate Read Across USN Week from Friday, January 9 through Friday, January 16 and reach for a goal of collectively reading 300,000 pages. We’ll celebrate with Community Night in the Hassenfeld Library on Thursday, January 15.
On Friday, January 9, we will send home tracking sheets with students so they can begin recording the number of pages they read each day through Friday, January 16. There will also be a digital form on the library website for participants to submit their page count online if they prefer. All students and their families, as well as all faculty & staff, are invited to join the challenge. This year, we are inviting alumni to participate as well! We will collect the tracking sheets on Tuesday, January 20 and announce the final tally on Friday, January 23.
Participation is entirely voluntary, but we hope many of you will join us. Reading is an important part of our lives and comes in all different forms, whether you’re reading a picture book to a child, listening to an audiobook while taking a walk, rereading a beloved Calvin & Hobbes collection, or even reading sheet music. It all counts! And everyone who turns in a tracking sheet not only adds their number to our total tally, but also gets entered into a raffle for a bookish prize.
To get us excited about this challenge, we’re hosting a Community Night in the Hassenfeld Library from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Thursday, January 15. This event will feature refreshments and fun activities like a Hassenfeld Library scavenger hunt and an opportunity to create your own custom READ posters – plus, of course, plenty of books to help keep you turning pages. We’d love to have a few parent volunteers to help with this event; if you’re interested, here is the USNA sign-up sheet. We hope to see you there!
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2000 Edgehill Ave.
Nashville, TN 37212
Phone: 615-321-8000
Fax: 615-321-0889
Email: info@usn.org
River Campus
1200 County Hospital Road
Nashville, TN 37218
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University School of Nashville models the best educational practices. In an environment that represents the cultural and ethnic composition of Metropolitan Nashville, USN fosters each student’s intellectual, artistic, and athletic potential, valuing and inspiring integrity, creative expression, a love of learning, and the pursuit of excellence.