It's time to celebrate National Inspirational Role Models Month (NIRMM)!

NIRMV cordially invites everyone to celebrate National Inspirational Role Models Month
(NIRMM). It’s the annual NIRMV November Signature Month.
 
Check out the ideas below, or download and print (pdf). Then visit nirmm.wordpress.com for more information and
activities.

2024 NIRMM Theme: Discovering More About History, Herstory and Cultural Heritage
2024 NIRMM Historic Role Model: Alex Haley

Ten 2024 NIRMM Celebration Ideas

1) Select/learn more about your inspirational role models
2) Talk with an adult about their life at your age
3) Read books about historical figures/periods
4) Listen to music linked to/inspired by different cultures
5) View culturally-reflective art/create your own
6) Watch TV shows/films about history and culture
7) Look at some family photos/talk about them with others.
8) Visit some web sites about different cultures
9) Write a story about a cultural experience
10) Read/listen to poems linked to history and culture

 

Super Kid: Meet Heman Bekele, Time Magazine's Kid of the Year

You don't have to be a grown-up to be a scientist! And you can't be a grown-up to be Time Magazine's 2024 Kid of the Year. Heman Bekele, a 10th-grader at Woodson High School in Fairfax County, Virginia, won the magazine's Young Scientist Challenge - and $25,000. The accomplishment that led to him being named Kid of the Year: inventing a soap that could one day treat and even prevent multiple forms of skin cancer. What a super kid!

Celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month with a music quiz

If you didn't already know, October is National Hispanic Heritage Month! Carnegie Hall - a famous music venue in New York City - has created a music quiz for kids you can take to celebrate Hispanic Heritage by learning about rhythms in Latin music. Take the quiz here.

The 2024 Recommended Reading List is here!

 This year's recommendations include reading categories for:

• Picture books for ages 3-7
• Children's literaure/chapter books for ages 8-12
• Middle grade for ages 13-16
• Young adult for ages 16-20
• And nonfiction options for multiple ages

Download the list here under the Reading category.
 

Reading Rewards 5 Stay at Home Party

Calling all readers ages 3 to 17: our 5th Reading Rewards Stay at Home party will be Sat., Aug. 3. This year's theme is Celebrating Culture. Here's how to register and receive your activities kit:

• Email nirmvdetroit at gmail.com by Fri., July 12, 2024
• Include the name(s) and age(s) of the participants
• Include the name and postal address of the adult authorizing participation in Reading Rewards

Download and share the flyer (PDF)