Cafe Read-A-Latte

Feeling nostalgic, I thought I would talk about something amazing my teacher did in sixth grade. Once a quarter (four times in the school year) she would do something that she called "Cafe Read-A-Latte." The teacher would transform the classroom into a coffee shop by various methods. She would turn off all the lights and have real lamps that she brought in from home to set a dim glow. Then the desks would be pushed from rows into little tables covered in lace table cloths. The walls would be decorated in seasonal items, such as Christmas lights or cutouts of bats and pumpkins. The finishing touch was that she would bring in an industrial size peculator that would be used to make hot chocolate that we would eat with small snacks. Our English teacher would use this little event as a reward for reading. Only people who had read their books could attend and the students at the little table would spend the class time talking about their books while sipping chocolate. I do not remember the books that I discussed, but "Cafe Read-A-Latte" has always stuck with me. I was a big lover of reading before my teacher did this, but I always thought that this was a fantastic event that was rewarded to those who loved books.