Community Service

Next Jeneration Reading

Next Jeneration Reading is an interactive reading presentation where we will connect kids back to nature and inspire today’s generation of children to read more! The theme of the books will be centered around a particular animal of your choosing (see list below).  This free presentation will begin with a short introduction about the importance of reading and the essential role wildlife plays in our world.  We will read 2-3 storybooks about the featured animal and discuss the themes and what we learned.  After the stories have been read, we will bring the pages to life by showing the live animal to the kids!  A wildlife expert will teach them first-hand all about the animal and what we can do to keep our environment healthy.  We will send home a book with each child so they can let their imagination go wild!

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Intended audience K-2nd grade (up to 30 students)

Length: 45 minutes

We have partnered with the Sophia Sachs Butterfly House

and World Bird Sanctuary to offer the following options:

• hissing cockroach 

• snake

• owl

• Walking Stick

• falcon

• Eagle

• hawk

• parrot

• turtle 

• Tarantula