Thank you, Pleasant Valley Students, for an amazing year in Library!  I’m so proud of your hard work and love of reading and books!

On that note, I would love to celebrate and congratulate our newest Million Word Club Members for the 2023-24 School Year!

Hank Smilanich Dyer with 1,020,744 words read

Elizabeth Welmerink with 1,033,602 words read

Owen Rotter with 1,222,728 words read

William Walker with 1,136,919 words read

Nayeli Cilonis with 1,417,657 words read

Maizzie McGouran with 1,488,629 words read

Maximus Hernandez with 1,545,943 words read

Drew Mason with 1,656,405 words

Zachariah Dyer with 1,724,618 words read

Audrey Lazzari with 1,815,800 words read

Braddock Hurlbut with 1,831,637 words read

Audrey Angevine with 2,077,165 words read

Kaila Kanekoa with 2,106,413 words read

Cooper Stevens with 2,350,178 words read

Jase Bowman with 2,476,037 words read

The winner of this year’s Million Word Club is Emma Tartakoff with 2,691,837 words read!

Congratulations to all of our amazing readers!  I’m so proud of you!  PVES looks forward to your continued membership, as well as welcoming new members, for 2024-25!  Keep reading all summer!  Be on the lookout for a connect ed with summer reading programs you and your family can participate in.

“Once you can read anything, you can learn everything.”

With joy in literature,

Mrs. Lazzari

Congratulations on being complete rock stars, PVES! 

Our reading goal of 65,000 minutes was reached and surpassed... our reading minutes totaled more than

71,000!

Here is a list of our Top Readers for Reading Week... great job!

Prek: John Bowman

Kinder: Waylon Martin and Benjamin Knox

1^st Grade: Ayden Hess, Ethan Tartakoff, and Evelyn Curtis

2^nd Grade: Delaney McSweeney, Adaline Lazzari, Athena Lund, and Connor Hurlbut

3^rd Grade: Nolan Davis, Tatum Linderman, and Eris Esch

4^th Grade: Cooper Stevens and Drew Mason

5^th Grade: Kaila Kanekoa and Braddock Hurlbut

I’m SO proud of our school for rising above our challenge and for all the ways staff and teachers encouraged students to participate in our reading week fun!

Mrs. Lazzari

Update on our Penny Drive!

Hello PVES Family, 

It is super exciting to let you know that the 2023-24 Penny Drive for the Soysambu Conservancy Schools raised $782.52. Thank you so much for collecting the money and letting us continue to support this great cause.

The winners of the pizza party are:

Mrs. Demos’ class for grades 3-5 and Mrs. Frost’s class for grades PK-2.

Sincerely,