Thank you Tom Young for reading to our East Aiken 3rd graders today for Real Men Read! Mrs. Shuford’s class loved having you read to them! #ReadAcrossAmericaWeek #RealMen Read

Thank you Eric L. Jeffcoat for reading to our East Aiken 4th graders today for Real Men Read! You were awesome!

Book Character Day and the teachers went all our!! It is hard to pick my favorite!! So very blessed to have these teachers East Aiken!! They are ALL IN for kids!!

What else does SPARK Day have to offer?? An East Aiken Story Walk of course!! #CreativityAndMovement #NewAndImprovedFieldDay

So proud of our East Aiken Battle of the Books team!!! They represented East Aiken well!! #ReadingIsOutOfThisWorld #GoTeamGo

Tonight’s East Aiken Student Art Show was AMAZING!! Our students’ art work always blows me away!! I’m so proud of our very talented students and their amazing teacher, Mrs. Smith! #YoungArtistAtWork #ProudPrincipal

It’s time to Dive Into Summer Reading!! Today, each of our East Aiken kiddos received a bag of 5 to 6 brand new books for summer reading!!! Kyle D. Blankenship & I delivered summer reading bags to Ms. Shaw’s class & Mrs. Watford’s class! SO MUCH FUN!!! #KeepReadingEA

We are so THANKFUL for The Gifting Tree Foundation’s generosity!!! Our East Aiken faculty/staff were so excited!! The Gifting Tree Foundation gives East Aiken School of the Arts teachers $100 gift cards postandcourier.com/aikenstandard/… via Aiken Standard

Today we celebrated our East Aiken students who met their Summer Reading Challenge. Students got to make a tie dye shirt and received a new book! It was a grand way to end another ROCKIN’ GOOD week East Aiken!! #ProudPrincipal

So EXCITED to have Langston Moore & Preston Thorne return to East Aiken this Wednesday for another #ReadingWorkout!! I’m not sure who’s more excited…the students or adults!! It’s going to be a ROCKIN’GOOD day! #GoProInReading

A HUGE THANK YOU to First Presbyterian Church of Aiken for donating food & snack items to support our East Aiken students. We appreciate their support! #CommunityPartners #Blessed

These Clemson girls are #ALLIN for the Tigers AND #ALLIN for #JustAChicken! Preston Thorne & Langston Moore Reading Workout was AWESOME! It was a ROCKIN’ GOOD day East Aiken! #GoProInReading #ReadingRocks

My blood may bleed orange BUT I’m one of #JustAChicken’s biggest fans!! Preston Thorne & Langston Moore mission to improve literacy & the lives of our youth across our great state of SC is both inspirational & powerful! Thank you for a job well done! #ReadingWorkout East Aiken

Our East Aiken August Reading Celebration was all about rock painting because Reading Rocks! We celebrated over 300 students for meeting their August reading goal which is OUTSTANDING! Keep reading East Aiken!! #ReadingRocks #ProudPrincipal

Thank you Kevin Kisner & Brittany Kisner for sharing your love of reading with our East Aiken kids! Their video read aloud of With Lots Of Love was FANTASTIC! Thank you to the Kisner Foundation for giving a book to each class to participate in Jumpstart #ReadForTheRecord2023!

Our 4K-3rd grade students had a visit from author & illustrator David Biedrzycki. The author of Invasion of the Unicorns & SumoKitty, Biedrzycki shared how he creates books, finds ideas everywhere, & encouraged students to write and create their own stories as well! East Aiken

Today ALL of our 3rd grade students were gifted a book from the Book Fair by PEP..Public Education Partners!! It was such an AWESOME gift and so appreciated! We love our community partners!! #ForTheLoveOfLiteracy #ReadingRocks East Aiken

Congratulations to Mrs. Walp, Melanie Starks, Christi McWaters, & Rachel Harris for being awarded an SRNS Innovative Teaching Mini-Grant! I am so proud of these incredible ROCKSTAR teachers! I am so blessed to know them & truly the luckiest principal ever! #ProudPrincipal

Thank you SRNS for your continued support of AikenCoPublicSchools teachers! The Innovative Teaching Mini-Grant program is fantastic & truly makes a difference! #CommunityPartner

I LOVE my office staff to the moon & back!! They are always all in!! Our Reading Day book float based on the book Our Principal Promised to Kiss a Pig was so much fun!!! #LoveMyStaff East Aiken