Math, Reading and Pizza Bring Families to Barnsley
Literacy night draws hundreds for fun, games and learning
Family game night had a slightly different flavor on Thursday as Lucy V. Barnsley Elementary welcomed hundreds of students and their families to Family Literacy and Math Night. The games featured the spinners and dice of traditional board games but challenged students to conquer addition and multiplication instead of chutes and ladders. Staff stayed after school and offered up pizza to families who came for dinner and stayed for math games and read aloud sessions with Barnsley teachers. Principal Andrew Winter got in on the action, reading Dr. Seuss's "Fox in Socks" to an audience of students and parents in the school's library. "A lot of times the academic support parents give is through homework," said third grade teacher Becca Lobel, …
