Spark Your Greatness with Pizza Hut Book It!
I have fond memories of participating in the BOOK IT! program as a child, even though we weren’t fortunate enough to have a Pizza Hut near us. (We made it work, but that’s our little secret.) When Pizza Hut contacted me about checking out their new summer reading site and doing a review/giveaway on my blog, I was all over it like mozzarella on a pan crust. Sorry, that was cheesy. 😉
While my oldest is not quite reading age, both of my girls love books. My toddler begs for book after book every night, and my preschooler especially loves to act out the story line for her sister. As children get older and start to read on their own, though, I think it’s especially important for parents to be involved in encouraging them to read more. That’s where Pizza Hut’s new site comes in.
To celebrate the new site launch, Pizza Hut is giving away a cool mesh cinch bag, a copy of the book Dragons Love Tacos, and a $10 Pizza Hut Gift Card to one lucky Mom on the Range reader. To enter, simply comment on this post (or the Mom on the Range Facebook page) by 5 p.m. July 5, and tell us how you’re keeping your kids’ (or your own) brain active this summer.
The Pizza Hut BOOK IT! Program launched a new summer site called Spark Your Greatness, the goal of which is to help defeat that “summer slide” children find themselves in sometime between “I’m BORED!” and the first day of the next school year.
The site is full of free, fun games and activities for the children to do including Read & Do activities, games, printables (including word scrambles and searches) and even featured stories from One More Story. Participants will also have a blast navigating through the site, unlocking items to customize their very own dragon. The site features a tracker that will tabulate all the minutes and number of readers participating in the program throughout the 40 days.
The program was developed to address the summer slide problem summed up best by the National Summer Learning Association: “A conservative estimate of lost instructional time is approximately two months or roughly 22 percent of the school year” due to kids not being ready to pick up where they left off from the previous year.
Check out the site with your little readers today at http://www.bookitsummer.com/. By participating, you’ll be entered to win one of the fabulous prizes below!
Grand Prize
- One $500 School Grant to a public, private, or parochial school with 501C3 status. School grant is to be managed by, and delivered by, Sponsor.
- One Kindle Fire HD Tablet
- One $100 Amazon Gift Card
- One $100 Pizza Hut Gift Card
- One Dragons Love Tacos (hardcover book)
- One Drawstring cinch bag
2nd Tier – 5 Winners
- One Kindle Fire HD Tablet
- One Dragons Love Tacos (hardcover book)
- One Drawstring cinch bag
- One $25 Pizza Hut Gift Card
3rd Tier – 100 Winners
- One (1) Dragons Love Tacos (hardcover book)
- One (1) Drawstring cinch bag
- One (1) $10 Pizza Hut Gift Card
I love this! I worked my tush off reading every summer for a BOOK IT! prize.
We’re going to the library every week and checking out children’s books with topics she’s interested in and topics I’m interested in. Then we find examples in our house/city. For instance, A Child’s Book of Art lead to a discussion of Van Gogh, sunflowers and turned into an activity of actually painting
We go to the library once a week. Almost every night everyone, including me, sits down to read or look at the story book they have selected. (I have one non reader). Each child recommends a book to the other to keep the reading going.
Congrats Rebecca, you’re the winner of the prize package! I’ll be contacting you by email for contact info. 🙂
I loved Book It as a child! Great memories.
We make special trips to the library and have reading time together almost every day. My kids love books as much as they love toys! And since we’re homeschooling, we do some fun lessons every week to keep the “summer slump” from setting in.
We love going to the library. Roo and Jasper have a stack of books out right now. Jasper’s really into American history and he found a picture book about George Washington that debunks popular mythology. It’s pretty funny!
When I was a pre-k teacher my classes always participated in Book-It!