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Rounding up Literacy Field Day A


By Natalea Watkins


scary-looking pirate named Wyatt sat on a bucket and began reading Walter Far-


ley’s classic Little Black, A Pony to Jasmine. She’s a quarter horse mare who’s neither black nor a pony. But she listened anyway and even nodded her head when Wyatt faithfully showed her the pictures on every page. He made sure to pronounce the hard words in case he ever needed to read them again. Wyatt was just one of 70 first graders from Stillwater’s Highland Park Elementary School who read to horses on May 18. The Literacy Field Day was the capstone of a grant from Central Rural Electric Cooperative (CREC) Foundation in partnership with Turning Point Ranch Therapeutic Riding Center and the na-


First graders from Stillwater’s Highland Park Elementary School round up for Literacy Field Day, an event made possible through a grant from the Central Rural Electric Cooperative Foundation. Photos by Linda Guenther, Kyle Hadley, and Collin Nasalroad


tional Horse Tales Literacy Project.


The students moved through 12 activity sta- tions ranging from reading and measuring horses


with hands to racing, roping, and even painting rocks to resemble the horses. They learned about blazes, pommels, fetlocks and curry combs. Face painting was particularly popu- lar with readers who became pirates, comic book superheores, kittens and butterfl ies.


It all began in February, when the CREC Foundation approved a grant to buy two books for each of the 70 fi rst graders at Highland Park. Co- op members “round up” their bills to create a fund that is used for com- munity projects. In early April, Turn- ing Point brought a little black pony and a big red horse to the school to give each child their own copy of Little Black, A Pony and take pictures of the children with horses.


Dr. Tracy Carter is an OSU zoologist and Turning Point instructor.


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