{"id":13576,"date":"2015-03-18T14:53:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T18:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/?p=13576"},"modified":"2015-03-18T14:53:13","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T18:53:13","slug":"agriculture-secretary-reads-to-students-at-fullerton-elementary-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/press-release\/2015\/03\/18\/agriculture-secretary-reads-to-students-at-fullerton-elementary-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Agriculture Secretary Reads to Students at Fullerton Elementary School"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_1373\"<\/a>FULLERTON, MD \u2013<\/strong> Agriculture Secretary Joe Bartenfelder today read to kindergarten and fourth grade students and led hands on activities at Fullerton Elementary School in Baltimore County as part of \u201cRead Across Maryland\u201d Month and \u00a0National Agriculture Day<\/a> (March 18).<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m happy to be here today with the students from Fullerton Elementary School and to share my passion for agriculture and the environment with them. Agriculture provides the food and nutrition to help students to succeed in school,\u201d said Secretary Bartenfelder. \u201cWorking together with educators, our public libraries, and families across Maryland, we can prepare the future leaders of Maryland to live and learn with excitement. I encourage every family read with their children for at least 30 minutes every day in March and to develop the habit of reading.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cFullerton Elementary greatly appreciates having Secretary Bartenfelder return to our school, where his children attended, and share his love of reading with our students,\u201d said Fullerton Elementary School Principal Candace Winterson-Salkowski.\u00a0\u201cAs a guest reader, Secretary Bartenfelder enthusiastically modeled the joy that comes from books and the importance of developing college and career readiness skills as young learners.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Hogan-Rutherford Administration is partnering with MSEA, the Maryland Library Association and the Maryland Association of School Librarians to encourage educators, parents and children to read 30 minutes a day for 30 days as part of a \u201cRead 30 for 30\u201d theme.<\/p>\n

This year also marks the 5th<\/sup> annual Ag Literacy Campaign<\/a>, launched by the Maryland Agriculture Education Foundation, to visit elementary school classrooms across the state, read a selected book and talk to students about the importance of agriculture in their lives. The selected book for 2015 is the \u201cAmazing! Maryland Agriculture,\u201d<\/em> which he read to the fourth grade class. The book defines agriculture and describes the different kinds of geography in Maryland while showing the agricultural products of each county<\/p>\n

For the kindergarten classes, Secretary Bartenfelder read \u201cWhat\u2019s in the Garden\u201d <\/em>by Marianne Berkes, which was the 2014 Ag Literacy Campaign selected book. The book explains that good food comes from a farm or garden, not a box on a grocery store shelf. The story features a variety of rhyming riddles about healthy, tasty fruits and vegetables along with hidden pollinators and pests in a garden.<\/p>\n

\u201cRead Across Maryland<\/a>\u201d was inspired by the National Education Association\u2019s \u201cRead Across America\u201d program, which encourages children across the country to celebrate reading on March 2, the birthday of children\u2019s author Dr. Seuss.\u00a0Throughout March, Maryland\u2019s public school students have been treated to readings by community leaders, elected officials, published authors and educators to promote daily reading.<\/p>\n

For more about Ag Day, visit www.agday.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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FULLERTON, MD \u2013 Agriculture Secretary Joe Bartenfelder today read to kindergarten and fourth grade students and led hands on activities at Fullerton Elementary School in Baltimore County as part of \u201cRead Across Maryland\u201d Month and \u00a0National Agriculture Day (March 18). \u201cI\u2019m happy to be here today with the students from Fullerton Elementary School and to  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[768,887,886],"class_list":["post-13576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release","tag-ag-day","tag-national-ag-week","tag-read-across-maryland"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13578,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13576\/revisions\/13578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}