Roanoke Avenue Elementary Principal Challenges Students to Read 75,000 Minutes

Photos courtesy of Riverhead Central School District

Roanoke Avenue Elementary School Principal Thomas Payton challenged Roanoke Elementary students to read 75,000 minutes as a school during Reading Week from Monday, March 2 to Friday, March 6.

If the students meet his challenge, Payton will ‘get slimed’ on the stage during an assembly which will take place on Friday, March 6, at 2:30 p.m.

Students are encouraged to read at least 30 minutes a day outside of school. The students are challenged to read on their own or to be read to (K-1).

The teachers of the five classes with the most minutes of reading time will climb up on to a ladder and pour a bucket of slime on to Payton’s head.

Each bucket will contain a different color of slime.

In past Reading Week challenges, Payton dressed up as chicken and did the Chicken Dance on stage and had the word ‘Read’ cut into a buzz cut performed live in front of the assembly by a local barber.