Georgia first lady Sandra Deal visits Dade Elementary School in Trenton on Tuesday, one of several regional schools she visited Tuesday to promote her “Read Across Georgia” campaign.LEARNING TO READI’ve got great news.I’m learning to read!I can sound out my lettersLike “sp” “sp” – speed.It’s exciting to learn themysteries that hide in a book.The names of pirates.. like Captain Hook.I can unlock the secretsthat are hidden in words.My mind is set free andit flies like the birds!So hop on this Magic Carpetand see where it leads.There are worlds to explorewhen you learn how to read!- Written by: Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal, Feb. 27, 2011
TRENTON, Ga. – Georgia’s first lady, Sandra Deal, made a whirlwind tour of half a dozen elementary schools in Northwest Georgia on Tuesday to promote literacy by reading aloud to students.
“It’s exciting to learn the mysteries that hide in a book. The names of pirates, like Captain Hook,” Deal told about 50 prekindergartners at Dade Elementary, reciting “Learning to Read,” a poem penned by Gov. Nathan Deal.
She then launched into a reading of “Who I’d Like to Be,” a children’s book written by then-90-year-old Elizabeth Brown and illustrated by the author’s 8-year-old great-granddaughter, Alexandria Elizabeth Brown.
The first lady encouraged the 4- and 5-year-olds, bunched together on a rug in the school’s media center, to read along and name the animals that she pointed out in the book.