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“CLOMP CLOMP, WIGGLE WIGGLE, SHAKE SHAKE” ... The Sounds of Marietta Reads!


The Rotary Club of Marietta has been reading up a storm in the local schools - as part of the 16th annual Marietta Reads! This Marietta City Schools citywide effort to foster reading and literacy in the community carries the slogan, "We all succeed when Marietta Reads!" The event kicked off at Marietta Square on October 27 and offered a Avariety of literacy activities including school performances, free books, literacy based activities, balloon artists, face painting, a mascot dance-off, and guest appearances. A highlight was the unveiling of the One Book Marietta.

Marietta Rotarians reading to the Second Grade classes at Sawyer Road Elementary included Rev. Dr. Mark Barbour, Richard Cope, Dale Covington, Jim Kellogg, Lee Pence and Becky Sawyer. Jim Kellogg said, "One adorable little girl said something to the effect that I looked like I could work in the White House. How funny. The teacher and I tried not to crack up, and she said something about us being very dignified when we came to read to them."

“CLOMP CLOMP, WIGGLE WIGGLE, SHAKE SHAKE. . .” go the collection of empty clothes in a forest encountered by "The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything" —a marvelous, five-star rated children’s book by Linda Williams cleverly illustrated by Megan Lloyd that Dale read to Mrs. Sykes’ second grade class at Lockheed Elementary during “Marietta Reads” last week. With all the repetitions of action in the text, it didn’t take anytime for Dale Covington to have the class boisterously reciting together the CLOMP CLOMP parts of Williams’ tale that build to a Happy Halloween climax for everyone except crows.

In the second grade classes at Hickory Hills Elementary, the readers included Rotarians Dale Covington, Joe DeSantis, Doug Haynie, Dan Kirk and Carlos Rodriguez. Doug and Carlos earned a marvelous thumbs-up for the sterling performance of Rotarian readers, Doug Haynie and Carlos Rodriguez, reading and discussing “ What’s the time, GRANDMA WOLF?” written and illustrated by Ken Brown.

Posted by Dale Covington
November 6, 2018

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