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Students came to school in their pajamas on Dec. 1 and listened as their teachers and their parents read them stories.
Wearing pajamas to school is normally frowned upon, but on Dec. 1 students at the West Elementary School were encouraged to don their PJs. More than 100 students came to the West, along with their parents, last Thursday evening for the school’s first “Books Before Bed” program. West School teachers and staff (also dressed in their pajamas) read to the students and then parents read to their children and vice versa. “We wanted to get families together reading at night,” West School reading teacher Amy Thomsen said. “It doesn’t matter what age they are, reading aloud to kids fosters a love of reading,” West School reading teacher Laurie Higgins said. Teresa Schwarz, an English as a Second Language coordinator for the schools, read a book in …
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