Reading Program

It’s true! Children who love to read and know how to use their library are more successful in school and in life. Reading is an adventure your entire family can enjoy. That’s why West Elementary is participating in a local McDonald’s restaurants’ reading program called “Reading is a Magic Trip.” The program is designed to help children and families discover the limitless world of information, entertainment, and adventure at their library and in books.


This free, noncompetitive program featuring characters from the popular book series, The Magic School Bus, has been especially created by the American Library Association with the support of McDonald’s family restaurants to encourage school-age children to read and to explore the different sections of the library. Children who participate will receive their own personal reading log to record the number of minutes they have read. Once your child has completed the reading log (with 400 minutes read per month), he/she will receive a coupon for a FREE McDonald’s Happy Meal that you can redeem with your child at your local McDonald’s restaurant. The classroom, which completes the most reading logs in the school, will receive a FREE McDonald’s party in their classroom at the end of the school year in May.

We believe “Reading is a Magic Trip” will be an effective way to help children have a love of reading. In fact, studies have shown that reading programs such as this one actually do stimulate children’s interest in books, motivate reading, and significantly increase reading test scores.

Please join with us in bringing the joy of reading to your child!