Students devouring books? That was the scene when East Point Academy third grade teacher, Ms. Lester, held a “Book Tasting” in the school’s cafeteria complete with chef’s hats, custom menus, and yummy literary fun. Students got to “taste” three different genres, and review these using one-to-five stars supported by written critiques. “Trying different types of books can help students learn what they like to read and help encourage a love of reading,” explained Lester. “During the tasting, students sampled adventure as an appetizer, non-fiction as the main course, and mystery as dessert,” she added.<\/p>\n
“I love that Ms. Lester had a creative way to encourage reading new genres,” remarked third grade parent Kelsea Snelgrove. “Ms. Lester presented reading in a way that was fun, educational, and innovative.” When asked about the tasting, third grader Braylin echoed her mom’s excitement, “It was so cool because I got to read Adventure, Mystery and NonFiction, and they were yummy!” she added with a giggle.<\/p>\n
“Ms. Lester’s ‘Book Tasting’ exemplifies the hands-on learning that happens every day at East Point Academy,” remarked Assistant Principal Ashley Cohoon. “I am impressed with Ms. Lester’s creativity to teach the South Carolina Standards in a meaningful way. The students continue to talk about this art-rich activity.”<\/p>\n
East Point Academy is a highly rated Mandarin Immersion free Public Charter School that provides rigorous academics with a global focus to students from four-year-old kindergarten to eighth grade. It was named the “Best” Charter School by the FreeTimes and State Newspaper, “Best” Private or Charter Elementary School in South Carolina by Niche.com.<\/a><\/p>\n To learn more, visit www.eastpointsc.org<\/a> or to schedule a tour call (803) 926-5180.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Students devouring books? That was the scene when East Point Academy third grade teacher, Ms. Lester, held a “Book Tasting” in the school’s cafeteria complete with chef’s hats, custom menus, and yummy literary fun. Students got to “taste” three different genres, and review these using one-to-five stars supported by writtenContinue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34],"tags":[324],"class_list":["entry","author-john-griggs","post-3660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-education","tag-east-point-acdemy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gpstrianglenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/TastyReading_2021_630x350.jpg?fit=630%2C350&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}