Book Club Gives Fletcher Students Chance To Read Together, Expand Vocabulary

Members of “Milton’s Book Club,” a program through Chautauqua Striders at Fletcher Elementary School, smile with their copies of “Mr. Popper’s Penguins.” Pictured are Striders volunteer Nelson Garifi and director of academics, Anna Gassman, and students Maleah Soto, Kiara James Gabalski, Charli Hansen, Sophie Whittaker, and Fiona Rublee.
Each Tuesday after school, roughly a dozen Fletcher Elementary School students gather in the school library. “Alright, my friends,” says the gentleman seated in the…