FasTracKids® Hosts Jumpstart’s Read for the Record

Record-Breaking Reading Campaign Sparks Lifelong Love of Learning

FasTracKids® Enrichment Center of Arcadia celebrates Jumpstart’s Read for the Record, a national campaign to engage hundreds of thousands of children and adults in breaking the world record for the most children reading the same book on the same day.

FasTracKids Arcadia will host this event at the Westfield Santa Anita on Thursday, October 2nd. The community is invited to participate in a fun-filled, free event to include guest speaker Robert Harbicht, the Mayor of Arcadia, and others. This event begins at 3:00 PM.

3 p.m.: Yvonne from Arcadia Public Library
3:45 p.m.: Arcadia Mayor Harbicht
4:30 p.m.: Aaron Gryder - Santa Anita Jockey

"Children are born learning, but not all children have the same advantages for early education or enrichment," explains Shirley Noda, director and owner of FasTracKids Arcadia. "At FasTracKids, we’re building on the natural curiosity of the youngest learners.

By hosting Jumpstart’s Read for the Record, we can help raise public awareness about the early education gap that exists between income levels, and share our goals for enriching children with the knowledge to become creative thinkers, skilled leaders and resourceful problem solvers."

FasTracKids’ partnership with Jumpstart’s Read for the Record campaign will help create the largest "shared reading experience" ever and challenge the record set on a single day in September 2007, when over 250,000 people read the same book across the country. FasTracKids invites readers of all ages to attend the event to read the campaign’s official book, Corduroy. The day’s activities will begin at 3:00PM.

FasTracKids gives children the opportunity to explore ideas in an exciting environment that offers positive emotional support and fosters healthy social interaction between intellectual peers.

Children work at their own pace while using their own powers of observation, communication, and investigation. In just two hours a week, children aged three to eight learn through hands-on experiments, live report presentations, guided discussions and role-playing, an approach that guarantees interactive fun and a lively exchange of ideas. "By enriching their innate, personal drive to learn,

we can expand their horizons and nourish their lifelong love of learning," says Shirley Noda. "In this way, enrichment is a more organic approach than what is found in any other learning setting because it values learning for its own sake."

FasTracKids Arcadia is part of the award-winning FasTracKids International, Ltd. which hosts nearly 12,000 children in 48 countries including Brazil, China, Turkey, Ghana, Russia, Mexico, Egypt and Korea. Its curriculum has been translated into thirteen languages including Russian, Greek, Chinese and Arabic. FasTracKids programming is tailored to nourish children at a variety of ages including FasTracKids® (ages 3 to 6 yrs.), FasTrack® Tots (ages 2 ½ to 3 ½ yrs.), FasTrack® Signing (ages 6 mos. to 2 yrs.), FasTrack® Music (ages 2 to 6 yrs.) and FasTrack® Explorers (ages 2-4).

For more information and class schedules contact Shirley Noda at 626-254-8500 or arcadia@fastrackids.com, or visit: www.fastrackids.com.

FasTracKids® is a registered mark of FasTracKids International, Ltd.; FasTracKids Enrichment Center®, FasTrack® Signing, FasTrack® Music, FasTrack® Tots and FasTrack® Explorers are registered marks of FasTracKids International, Ltd.

CONTACT: GREG SHEN

626-254-8500

arcadia@fastrackids.com