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Winstead Elementary Character Parade Helps Instill Love for Reading

Winstead Elementary Character Parade Helps Instill Love for Reading
A man in a Cat in the Hat hat and suit kneels with a group of smiling children holding books in front of a brick building.
  • 2022
  • March

Winstead Elementary students and faculty enjoyed the sunny weather March 3 as they celebrated Read Across America Week with a special parade.

With Superintendent Jason Golden at the front of the line, WSES students dressed up as their favorite storybook characters and marched around the school's outdoor track to show off their costumes and books.

"Our students just loved the parade," said WSES Principal Kathy Wells. "We had a fantastic week celebrating literacy to instill a love for reading."

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A man in a Cat in the Hat hat and suit kneels with a group of smiling children holding books in front of a brick school building.
Two women in costumes, one dressed as a farmer with overalls and a pig plush, and the other as a pig with a tutu and %22Some Pig%22 shirt, stand in the foreground with a school building and trees in the background.
Two smiling children hold books in the foreground, while a group of other children stand behind them in front of a brick building.
Four women dressed as book characters pose in the foreground with a blurred background of children and trees.
Three children in costumes, one as a fairy, one with mouse ears, and one as a dalmatian, hold up books in front of a blurred outdoor scene with trees and people.
Two smiling boys in the foreground hold up copies of a children's book titled %22Two Countries, Three Friends,%22 with a blurred background of trees and a park bench.
Two young girls, one holding a %22Fancy Nancy%22 book and the other a %22Sandra Lee Semi-Homemade desserts%22 box, stand in the foreground with a blurred background of people and trees.
A young girl in a Pikachu costume holds a Pokémon book while standing on a paved path with trees in the background.
A young girl in a white shirt and blue tie smiles holding a stuffed owl with a blue bandana, while a crowd of people are visible in the blurred background under a bright sky.
Four smiling people, two in wheelchairs and two standing, pose outdoors with trees and a fence in the background.