“Read and Romp” Jacksonville

Author: Shannon Miller

As parents we tend to focus on our child’s health with regard to sleeping, eating, vaccinations and safety. However, reading is a critical part of a child’s health and well being.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, children who were read to at least three times a week as they entered kindergarten are more likely to have mastered the letter-sound relationship at the beginning and ending of words before they leave kindergarten than children who are not read to at least three times a week.

Further, children who were read to at least three times a week as they entered kindergarten are more likely to understand words when presented in context in both the spring of kindergarten and the spring of first grade than children who are not read to at least three times a week.

Join Shannon at “Read and Romp” Jacksonville: A FREE reading event designed for children 8 and under.

Saturday, October 9
1 – 4 p.m.
Join St. Vincent’s Medical Center for the 4th Annual “Read and Romp” Jacksonville.

Activities include:

• arts and crafts
• decorating cookies
• face painting
• bean bag toss
• bounce house
• Enjoy story time with Clifford the Big Red Dog
• Receive FREE children’s books
• Have fun with Kitty the Clown
• Petting Zoo

Parking for this event will be in the Oak Street parking lot.

Join Shannon at St. Vincent’s Family Medicine Center, 2627 Riverside Avenue

For more information, call (904) 308-1416

St. Vincent’s Family Medicine Center gladly accepts your old books as a donation.