We want to thank everyone who came out to support the Morasha School Book Fair last week at Barnes and Noble. We want to thank Kathleen Canter for coordinating the event and thank all of the teachers that came to read to our kids. Hopefully you were able to get some great books for your family and we know many of you bought books for the classrooms. Thank you for your generosity.
 
No matter what your politics are, isn't it great that we will have a President that is a passionate reader?  We even know some of the books that are on his night stand. One book is Doris Kearn Goodwin's Team Of Rivals.
 
Our Staff loves to read. Many are in book clubs. I often find myself asking people around here about what they are reading and what they recommend to read. I just finished Rabbi Artson's The Everyday Torah (weekly Torah portion) and am currently reading Joyce Carol Oats The Grave Diggers Daughter (heavy fiction) and Jim Pattersons' The Influencers, The Power To Change Anything.  I highly recommend all three. There is absolutely nothing like a great book to fall into.
 
 At Morasha, in addition to teaching the students the skills and mechanics of reading we also strive to instill a passion for reading as well. As I visit in the classes I never fail to see various activities occurring that revolve around the pleasure of reading from the upper grades lounging in their beach chairs reading or the lower grades being read a wonderful story by their teachers. The joys of reading are all around us.
 
We count on your to partnership with us in striving to instill a love of reading in our children. One of the best ways to do that is to continue to read a loud to your children. Even if they are reading on their own pick a book (with their input) to read to them, no one ever outgrows hearing a good story. Additionally, it is important for them to see you reading books, magazines and/or the newspaper.
 
As the holiday vacation is upon us, my gift to you is to encourage you to pick a book to read a loud with your kids and pick a book to fall into yourself! You will thank me.
 
B'shalom,
 
Eve