The Kiwanis Club of Greater Lawrence
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Reading Service Project
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| Partnering with Northmark Bank, the Club has read
once a month to classes of kindergarten children in the Hennessey
School in Lawrence. There are seven Kiwanian readers and five
from the bank.
This year's program will begin in November and run through the remainder of the school year. Our Club directly reaches more than 200 children each year through this service. The children are typically well versed in Spanish, less so in English. The school's goal is for all children to be able to read in English by the end of kindergarten. They understand that should they not be fluent in English by third grade, their chances of failure are much greater thereafter. This program relates to the Kiwanis International's objective of service entitled "Young Children Priority One." The Club has been reading to the children for more than twenty years. |