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Celebrity readers grace GTC
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Posted on Sep 23 2005
Gov. Juan N. Babauta and Lt. Gov. Diego T. Benavente gamely served as celebrity readers in Gregorio T. Camacho Elementary School’s Celebrity Reader’s Day yesterday.
Bilingual teachers at the school organized the event as part of the Commonwealth’s Cultural Heritage Month celebrations. GTC bilingual teacher Rose Sharon Taimanao said the event at the school is held every year to especially coincide with the monthlong celebrations.
Taimanao said this year they invited government leaders to read to their students some stories in their native tongue—Chamorro and Carolinian. Board of Education chair Roman C. Benavente and former Commerce Secretary Andrew Salas also attended the event.
The celebrity readers picked up a schedule and chose their preferred stories for the students, said Taimanao. The celebrity readers began to arrive at around 9:30am and signed in at the administration office before drawing lots for their assigned reading grade level at the school.
The actual reading started at around 10am and ended before 11am. A huge selection of food was also served to the celebrity readers.
Bilingual teachers Sesarina Kaipat, Francisco Deleon Guerrero, and Lorenza Castro helped in the event. GTC Elementary School principal Manuela A. Babauta thanked the governor and the lieutenant governor for the time and effort they spent with the school children, especially reading stories in the vernacular.
Students also had a chance to throw in questions to the celebrity readers regarding the story they just read and what they think about it.
Taimanao said a cultural day would be held Friday next week as a culminating activity of the Cultural Heritage Month. She said the cultural day would highlight the entire month’s cultural heritage awareness in the CNMI. A cultural day will be held also at GTC Elementary School at 9:30am.
