Every page read this summer helps your brain grow stronger! 🧠📚

Keep reading, exploring, imagining, and learning. Reading brings Endless PAWSibilities!

We are proud of our City Park readers!

🎯 New Weekly Goal:
Read 100 minutes this week!

That’s only about 15 minutes a day!

Can you do it?

📚 Feline Favorite Friday!

What book should PAWZ read next?

Drop your recommendations below!

📚🇺🇸 Freedom to Read 🇺🇸📚

As we celebrate the Fourth of July and begin honoring America’s 250th birthday, we’re reminded that one of our greatest freedoms is the freedom to read, learn, imagine, and explore new ideas.

Books help children dream big, discover history, understand others, and see the world in new ways. This summer, encourage your child to celebrate freedom by opening a book and letting their imagination soar!

Whether reading under the fireworks, by the pool, or during a family road trip, every page helps build strong readers and lifelong learners. ❤️🤍💙

📖 Read a favorite story together
📖 Visit your local library
📖 Listen to an audiobook on the go
📖 Share what your family is reading this summer

Let freedom READ! 🇺🇸✨

⏰ Keep those reading streaks going!

Even a few minutes each day makes a BIG difference by the end of summer.

You’ve got this, readers!

🌟 Reader Shoutout! 🌟

We love seeing City Park students reading all summer long!

Keep sharing your reading adventures with us!

Reading is EVERYWHERE!

Read:
🍕 Menus
🧁 Recipes
⚾ Sports articles
🛒 Grocery lists
🎮 Game instructions

Real-world reading matters too!

📚 Visit your local library this week!

Libraries offer:
✅ FREE books
✅ Summer programs
✅ Storytimes
✅ Activities
✅ Reading prizes

Libraries make summer reading even more fun!

⭐ Wonder — R.J. Palacio
⭐ The Wild Robot — Peter Brown
⭐ The One and Only Ivan— Katherine Applegate
⭐ How to Steal a Dog--Barbara O'Connor

⭐ The One and Only Ivan — Katherine Applegate

📖 Reading opens doors to adventure, imagination, and discovery all summer long!

🎧 Audiobooks count too!

Long car ride?
Quiet time at home?
Rainy afternoon?

Listening to stories helps build vocabulary and comprehension skills.

Scout stopped by our local United Way today to pick up some books to restock the Little Free Libraries in our CP neighborhoods. Be sure to stop by one of these to take a book or leave a book this summer!

🌟 PAWZ's First Grade Favorites

⭐ The Big Cheese— Jory John
⭐ Narwhal and Jelly — Ben Clanton
⭐ Elephant & Piggie books — Mo Willems
⭐ Frog and Toad Are Friends — Arnold Lobel
⭐ Jabari Jumps — Gaia Cornwall

Quick Summer Reading Tip:

Let your child choose books they LOVE.

Comics, nonfiction, sports books, joke books, graphic novels — it ALL counts as reading!

Books can take you ANYWHERE this summer! 🌎📚

Where has reading taken you lately?
🐉 A dragon castle?
🚀 Outer space?
🌊 Under the ocean?

Tell us in the comments!

Reading together creates lifelong memories.

Even older students enjoy listening to stories read aloud!

Today's challenge:
Turn off screens for 20 minutes and enjoy a family reading time together.

🎯 SUMMER READING CHALLENGE

Can you:
✅ Read with a flashlight
✅ Read outside
✅ Read to a stuffed animal
✅ Read a joke book
✅ Read for 20 minutes today

How many can you complete this week?

📚 PAWZ Recommends!

For rising 2nd & 3rd graders:
⭐ The Bad Seed by Jory John

Funny, relatable, and perfect for summer reading!

Have you read it yet?

PAWS' community cat ambassador, Scout, is out and about!! Today, it was time for a Little Free Library restock! He was excited to make new reader friends in the community as he spied several readers enjoying summer reading in the parks! He was also excited to see that the Little Free Libraries needed restocking because readers are reading!! Scout shared some crayons, frisbees, and other items as well to help our community stay unplugged this summer!

📸 SHOW US YOUR READING SPOT!

Where is your favorite place to read?
🏖️ Poolside?
🌳 Under a tree?
🛋️ On the couch?
🚗 In the car?

Post a picture in the comments!

PAWS sent one of his cat ambassadors, Scout, out into the community today to visit our local public library. Scout had a blast experiencing the summer reading program provided by our community library! He thinks everyone should "check it out" and participate in their summer reading challenge and program offerings!