COUNTING YOUR WAY THROUGH KINDERGARTEN WITH COUNTY TREASURER DAN MCALLISTER AND REACH OUT AND READ SAN DIEGO: MARCH 10 IN CITY HEIGHTS

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East County News Service

March 7, 2016 (San Diego) - County of San Diego Treasurer Dan McAllister will visit La Maestra Health Center at Rosa Parks Elementary (4510 Landis Street, San Diego) on March 10 at 9 a.m. to share his love of numbers and to find out how doctors and nurses are sending families home from check-ups with free books and a very important prescription: “read aloud to your children.”

Mr. McAllister will visit the health center to support this message by reading books including the KPBS One Book San Diego selection, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, to a group of Kindergarteners and distributing a copy to each child. Also in attendance, 16 year old RORSD Student Ambassador Sarah Lackey, will read to the class and share how being bullied as a child turned into a love for books. Sarah formed a non-profit “Books for Friends” where she shares books with programs like Reach Out and Read San Diego.

La Maestra’s Health Center at Rosa Parks Elementary serves families that are low-income, culturally and linguistically diverse and in many cases, are refugees and immigrants. This office participates in Reach Out and Read, a program that prepares America’s youngest children to succeed in school by training doctors and nurses to advise parents about the importance of reading aloud and to give books to children at checkups from 6 months through 5 years.

Through Reach Out and Read, each child starts kindergarten with a home library of up to 10 new, carefully chosen books and a parent who has heard at every well child check-up about the importance of books and reading. Parents learn how much their child’s brain is growing and the important role they play as their child’s first and best teacher.

Rosa Parks Elementary Health Center is one of 80 Reach Out and Read Programs in San Diego County that participate in Reach Out and Read, providing books to more than 75,000 low income children every year. Reach Out and Read San Diego (RORSD), a program of the local chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP-CA, Chapter 3), provides support and training to these participating pediatric clinics. 15 peer reviewed studies show that children who participate in this program are read to more often and score higher on vocabulary tests.

For more information contact  (858) 361-4644 / tmilbrand@aapca3.org www.rorsd.org


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