Cheverly Kids Care Club
Completed Events

Read-a-thon
June 7 - July 27

The children who participated in the read-a-thon voted to choose the recipient organization:
   St. Jude's Childrens Research Hospital
   http://www.stjude.org

Twenty children participated in the read-a-thon. They raised $787.86 for St. Jude's. Many thanks to all of our sponsors! A representative from St. Jude's visited with the kids to explain how their money will be used to help children without health insurance.

Jennifer Donatelli from the N.C. Gazette came to our celebration and wrote about the read-a-thon and the peace quilt project. Children Help Peers and Promote Peace

Some of the partipants sent me reading lists, comments, and photos. Thanks!!

Jonathan (age 7): "Ralph S. Mouse and Run Away Ralph were my favorites. I read 2,000 pages."

Grace (age 3 - almost 4!): "I love to read the Great Gracie Chase. I read 100 books."

Here is a photo of Damani reading:

Damani (age 8): "The books that I really enjoyed the most were Thomas, Madagascar, Baby Diaper Pants, and Captain Underpants."

Matt (age 10) read the following 6 books this summer:

  • Honus and Me by Dan Gutman
  • Warriors: Forest of Secrets by Erin Hunter
  • Who Ran My Underwear Up the Flagpole? by Jerry Spinelli
  • Secrets of Droon: The Hidden Stair and the Magic Carpet by Tony Abbott
  • Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
  • Big Book of Boy Stuff by Bart King
Matt says: "I had a lot of fun reading this summer. It made it worth it to be able to help St. Jude's and read at the same time. I really enjoyed reading the 6th book of the Harry Potter series. It was really good. Also, I equally liked the Big Book of Boy Stuff because it has so much interesting information and fun games and activities. The other books were also very good."

Here is Ann Marie at 12:15am on 8/16 with her new Harry Potter book:

Ann Marie (age 9) read the following books for a total of well over 1,000 pages:

  • Sliding into Home was about a girl who likes baseball. She moved into a new town where they said she couldn't play baseball. They said softball was the girls alternative to baseball. So she started a girls baseball league.
  • Time Cat was about a dream that a boy had and he said he wished he had nine lives and his cat said I wish I did too but the cat said that he could visit nine lives. So the cat took him on an adventure of nine lives. Then the boy woke up and found out it was a dream.
  • Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was really long so instead of telling you what it was about I'll tell you a part that I liked. I liked when Harry and Dumbledore went into the cave to find the Horcrux.
  • I just started a new book called Artemis Fowl. My Aunt Dawn gave it to me.
And here is Maggie (age 9) and her friend Claudio (age undisclosed), both reading: