Bee Mascot Celebrates Student Reading Challenge

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	Picking up the PACE!

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Elementary school classrooms who recently met Superintendent John L. Barry’s reading challenge earned a surprise visit from a cute and friendly bumble bee.

The Country Buffet Bee mascot visited classrooms at Crawford, Peoria and Wheeling elementary schools to serve tasty pizza slices as part of their reading challenge parties. Along with Superintendent Barry and Angela Hutton-Howard of the Aurora Education Foundation, the “C-Bee” celebrated students who have read 25 books each.


	“I’m excited to see that you all have met the challenge I gave you at the start of the school year. You are all great examples of how we are ‘Picking up the PACE’ here in APS.” - Superintendent John L. Barry

The first 100 elementary classes, the first 25 middle school classes and the first 25 high school classes to read 25 books will earn prizes or pizza parties like the ones Wheeling and Crawford received.

More than one hundred elementary classrooms have already met the challenge.

Based on the number of students reading 25 books in each class, that's more than 60,000 books read so far!

View a list of the classrooms that have already met the reading challenge here.


	“Our students found Mr. Barry’s challenge fun and rewarding. His challenge built a foundation for student motivation in reading.” - Harry Chan Peoria Elementary School Principal

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