The playground at T.C. Walker Elementary School was transformed into a summer camp one day this month for the PTA-sponsored Reading is Fundamental Book Giveaway for students in kindergarten through second grade.
The event was aimed at getting the students to read this summer. Gloucester Library employees set up a tent and explained the summer reading program, presented stories using puppets and sang songs.
The children learned about water safety and using dogs for search and rescues.
Room mothers set up a camp with a tent for each classroom and the children made crafts or participated in activities.
Some classes made RIF medallions, paper airplanes, wind streamers or pinwheels and bean pictures.
Kindergarten students went on a woods scavenger hunt and first-graders played with bubbles. Each class visited the green and white RIF tent and picked out a book.
Two hundred seventy-five books were given out to students.