LETTERS: A BIG NOTE OF THANKS

To the editor:

Thank you very much for helping our class get new chapter books. What a great way to start 1997! We read our new books every day for 30 minutes in small groups. The books help us read better and faster. They also challenge us to learn new words. We can't wait to read them all because the titles sound exciting to us.

Thank you for your help with the YELL program which makes reading more fun for us.

ALEX BALSMAN, BROOKE BEUSSINK, CLAUDIA BRAUSS, JORDAN BUCHHEIT, JOSH BUELL, CASEY CRAWFORD, KRISTI EFTINK, ROBERT GESELLSCHAP, TYLER ESSNER, MEGAN GLUECK, CLAIRE GOODSON, RYAN SENCIBOY, NICOLE MARKET, CHELSEA McDOWELL, TERESA MILLER, AMANDA MYER, AMANDA PEIFFER, RACHEL POYTHRESS, ALLISON SCHWENT, SARAH SUTTERER, HANNAH TERRY, J.P. THOMPSON and SARA WIBBENMEYER

Kathy Hotop-Raines second grade class

Immaculate Conception School

Jackson

EDITOR'S NOTE: This letter was carefully printed on blue posterboard and delivered to the Southeast Missourian, which is proud of the way the annual YELL campaign raises money for reading projects in schools throughout this area.