By Calen McKinney

Campbellsville Elementary School hosted BEAR Night on Tuesday, March 22.

CES preschool, kindergarten and first-grade students attended and learned all about reading. They also had fun playing games. BEAR stands for Be Excited About Reading. At the event, Campbellsville University education students led several activities and games relating to reading.

CES students made their own dinosaurs using paper cut into shapes, played rhyming bingo, matched rhyming words, learned about the life cycle of an apple, glued together apple trees, learned about pollen and more.

Students attending also received a teddy bear and book, compliments of Campbellsville Independent Schools Family Resource and Youth Services Center.

CES first-grader Anthony Lawson learns about seeds with CU education student Taylor Morehead of Campbellsville. (Campbellsville Independent Schools by Calen McKinney)

CES first-grader Cadence Burton plays a rhyming game while reading “Green Eggs and Ham” with CU education student Mary Sexton of Campbellsville. (Campbellsville Independent Schools photo by Calen McKinney)

CES kindergartner Paxton Bonds plays rhyming bingo with CU education student Joelle Collett of Harrodsburg. (Campbellsville Independent Schools photo by Calen McKinney)

CU education student Jessica Williams of Campbellsville helps CES kindergartner Paxton Bonds, at left, and his brother, Parker, a preschool student, make dinosaurs out of shapes. (Campbellsville Independent Schools photo by Calen McKinney)

CES first-grader Joe Greer learns about fish with CU education student Suzanne Peterson of Campbellsville and then makes his own. (Campbellsville Independent Schools by Calen McKinney)

CES first-grader Gavin Martin learns about the parts of a plant with CU education student Felicia Williams of Campbellsville. (Campbellsville Independent Schools photo by Calen McKinney)