National DEAR Day

PTC Students armed with books for DEAR Day!

On March 26th, we celebrated nationwide Uganda's first National DEAR Day (DEAR stands for Drop Everything and Read). I invited 60 PTC students over from the College to participate and do Read-Alouds with our pupils at the primary school. They jumped right in, picked out their own books to read aloud and even asked me if we could do it again in the future. To my dismay, the students were collecting firewood so we only had 20 minutes of reading in the end. A small victory nonetheless! We had a week to prepare for the event-- I worked with the PTC students to split them into lower and upper primary, and to bring them over to our newly revamped library to pick out their reading book. They did a great job the day of our event, they were enthusiastic, professional and eager to do it again! 

All-Star teacher Moses doing a Read-Aloud on DEAR Day

Pre-service teacher Jessica doing her first Read-Aloud