Maxey PTO Donates Books

by Bethany Larson

Recently Maxey Elementary School’s PTO has donated over 200 books to the Impact Learning Center. Maxey Elementary organizes a book exchange for its students, where students bring in old books and all books are combined. Then students are allowed to take the maximum of five new books home. Over 2800 books were brought in by students, so many books were left over. Maxey PTO then donates the rest of the books.

Chairperson of the book exchange and member of the Maxey PTO, Mikki Sandin helped connect ILC students with the books.

“The Impact Learning Center is something not a lot of people know about, so I wanted top put the plug in for it,” Sandin said.

After they were donated to City Impact, volunteer Jami Spaulding sorted through all the books and are ready to be used in the Read Room.

Each day in the Read Room, students are given about ten minutes to find books they are interested in and read them silently or with a book buddy volunteer. During this time, students use reading strategies they have learned in Read Room, such as schema, connections and mental images, with the books they pick out. With the variety of students, in age and interests, a variety of books to choose from is needed.

Thanks to the support and donation of Maxey PTO, ILC students will be able to expand their library.