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Sights & Sounds tent promotes children’s literacy
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San Marcos — The Sights & Sounds of Christmas will soon fill the air of San Marcos, and the Bluebonnet Lion Elves have been busily at work preparing surprises for the Children's Craft Tent.
The first weekend of December these elves will join efforts with many other volunteers to assist local children as they create and assemble their own Christmas crafts while promoting children's literacy and the Reach Out and Read program.
The San Marcos Bluebonnet Lions have partnered with Sights & Sounds annually to sponsor and coordinate the crafts and volunteers needed to staff the Children's Craft Tent. Besides creating ornaments from ceramics, pine cones and other media, kids can make Christmas cards or take a break and fish or skate in the Lions Ponds. Those trying their luck at fishing can pull in all kinds of great treasure — including books.
The books that appear in the tent are examples of those that children ages six months to five years of age have been receiving when they visit local pediatricians through the Reach Out and Read program. Both Corridor Primary Care Pediatrics and Dr. Patricia Becker's offices distribute the books to patients during their well child exams and talk to the parents about the importance of reading to their children. These pediatricians are “prescribing” reading time to promote literacy and to keep their patients on track developmentally.
The books are provided free of charge to the children through the Rotary Club of Greater San Marcos and the Bluebonnet Lions Club.
The San Marcos Bluebonnet Lions have made Reach Out and Read their signature project. All the funds raised at Sights and Sounds in the Children's Craft Tent are designated to the program that allows for the purchase of the books distributed by the participating pediatricians.
Reach Out and Read is a national, non-profit program developed at Boston Medical Center in 1989 by pediatricians and early childhood educators. Its mission is to make literacy promotion a standard part of pediatric primary care.
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