The West Valley’s 2nd Annual Summer Reading Camp will be held at Estrella Mountain Community College (EMCC) June 28 - July 2, from 8:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Sponsored by St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Estrella Mountain Community College, and Lattie Coor Elementary School, the program is designed for third and fourth grade students to work on their reading skills.
Students will develop and practice their reading skills by working with education majors enrolled at EMCC, who will use this valuable experience as an internship. These future teachers will work with the third and fourth graders to help them develop their reading skills, nurture a love for reading, and plant the vision in their minds that they are college material.
Approximately 18 students will benefit from this very personal instruction at EMCC. The instruction will be enhanced by crafts, art, drama, games, yoga, and exercise workshops provided by volunteers from St. Peter’s Episcopal Church. Curriculum and reading instruction will be under the leadership of EMCC’s Education Faculty Pete Turner, in collaboration with Ms. Laurie Gosler, Principal of Lattie Coor Elementary School. The final day of school will be held at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Litchfield Park where family and students will come together for awards and recognition, fun, a water slide, pizza, and overall community celebration.
Last year’s Summer Reading Camp, the first of its kind in the valley, was a huge success – for the elementary students, for the future teachers at Estrella Mountain, and for the volunteers at St. Peter’s. The testimony of one fourth grader, after attending the camp, sums it up best: “Now I want to go to college; I want to go to Harvard, Yale, or Estrella Mountain Community College!”
Media contact: Gay Romack, St. Peter's Episcopal Church, 623-695-3206.